Victim Empathy Intervention With Sexual Offenders: Rehabilitation, Punishment, or Correctional Quackery?

Sexual Abuse: Journal of Research and Treatment

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 282-301

  Mann, Ruth E ^a   Barnett, Georgia D ^a  

^a National Probation Service   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

sex offenders; victim empathy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876730187     PISSN: 10790632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1079063212455669     Document Type: Article

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