9 Public Attitudes Toward Applying Sex Offender Registration Laws to Juvenile Offenders

Protecting Children from Violence: Evidence-Based Interventions

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 193-218

  Salerno, Jessica M ^a   Stevenson, Margaret C ^b   Wiley, Tisha R A ^a   Najdowski, Cynthia J ^a   Bottoms, Bette L ^a   Doran, Rachel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203852927     Document Type: Chapter

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