The challenge of working with racially motivated offenders: An exercise in ambivalence?

Probation Journal

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 213-226

  Mcghee, Derek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ambiguity; denial; hate crime; motivational interviewing; poststructuralism; racisms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993825433     PISSN: 02645505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0264550507080373     Document Type: Article

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