The child abuse victim as a hostage: Scorpion’s story

Child Abuse Review

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 428-439

  Mudaly, Neerosh ^a   Goddard, Chris ^b  

^a Australians Against Child Abuse   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Case study; Child abuse; Hostage theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015067255     PISSN: 09529136     EISSN: 10990852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/car.715     Document Type: Article

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