Sex Offender Programmes: Concept, Theory, and Practice

Offending Behaviour Programmes: Development, Application, and Controversies

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 155-177

  Mann, Ruth E ^a   Fernandez, Yolanda M ^b  

^a National Probation Service   (United Kingdom)

^b Millhaven Institution   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clinical practice; Dream analysis; Electric shock; Masturbation; Sexual offender therapy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889379746     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470713341.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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