The promise and the peril of sex offender risk assessment

Sexual Deviance: Issues and Controversies

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 207-225

  Hart, Stephen D ^a   Laws, D Richard ^a,b,c   Kropp, P Randall ^d  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c South Island Consulting   (Canada)

^d British Columbia Forensic Psychiatric Services Commission   (Canada)

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EID: 84952011702     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4135/9781483328751.n12     Document Type: Chapter

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