Development of an object relation-based typology of adolescent sex offenders

Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 329-364

  Gamache, Dominick ^a   Diguer, Louis ^a   Laverdière, Olivier ^b   Rousseau, Jean Pierre ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^c LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ADOLESCENT SEX OFFENDER; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; BIOTYPOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; MALE; OBJECT RELATION; PERSONALITY; PSYCHODYNAMICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUAL CRIME; SOCIAL COGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CANADA; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRIME VICTIMS; CRIMINALS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; SEX OFFENSES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84872762667     PISSN: 00259284     EISSN: 19432828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/bumc.2012.76.4.329     Document Type: Article

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