Stability and Change: Dynamic Risk Factors for Sexual Offenders

Sexual Offender Treatment: Controversial Issues

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 17-31

  Hanson, R Karl ^a,b  

^a Department of the Solicitor General of Canada ^*  (Canada)

^b PUBLIC SAFETY CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Causal psychological risk factors; Dynamic risk factors; Predictive accuracy; Risk levels of offenders; Sexual offences

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889471752     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470713457.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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