Practitioner Compliance With Risk/Needs Assessment Tools: A Theoretical and Empirical Assessment

Criminal Justice and Behavior

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 716-736

  Miller, Joel ^a   Maloney, Carrie ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

community corrections; compliance; decision making; needs assessment; risk assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878655068     PISSN: 00938548     EISSN: 15523594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093854812468883     Document Type: Article

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