Risks and needs: Factors that predict women's incarceration and inform service planning

What Works With Women Offenders

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 61-90

  Severson, Margaret ^a   Berry, Marianne ^a   Postmus, Judy L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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