Two Treatment- and Change- Oriented Risk Assessment Tools: The Violence Risk Scale and Violence Risk Scale-Sexual Offender Version

Handbook of Violence Risk Assessment

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 121-146

  Wong, Stephen C P ^a   Olver, Mark E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

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EID: 85137437977     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203843666-14     Document Type: Chapter

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