Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 50, Issue 5 , Pages 400-407 , September 2009

Sex-specific predictors of criminal recidivism in a representative sample of incarcerated youth

  • Belinda Plattner

      Affiliations

    • Universitätsklinik für Psychiatrie des Kindes und Jugendalters, Medizinische Universität Wien, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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  • Hans Steiner

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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  • Steve S.L. The

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, VU Medical Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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  • Helena C. Kraemer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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  • Susanne M. Bauer

      Affiliations

    • Universitätsklinik für Psychiatrie, Medizinische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria
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  • Jochen Kindler

      Affiliations

    • Universitätsklinik für Psychiatrie, Medizinische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria
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  • Max H. Friedrich

      Affiliations

    • Universitätsklinik für Psychiatrie des Kindes und Jugendalters, Medizinische Universität Wien, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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  • Siegfried Kasper

      Affiliations

    • Universitätsklinik für Psychiatrie, Medizinische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria
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  • Martha Feucht

      Affiliations

    • Universitätsklinik für Psychiatrie des Kindes und Jugendalters, Medizinische Universität Wien, 1090 Vienna, Austria
    • Universitätsklinik für Pädiatrie, Medizinische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Universitätsklinik für Psychiatrie des Kindes und Jugendalters, Medizinische Universität Wien, 1090 Vienna, Austria. Tel.: +11 43 1 40 400/3011; fax: +11 43 1 40 400/2793.

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 This manuscript represents original material and has not been presented previously in whole or in substantial part.

PII: S0010-440X(08)00151-X

doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2008.09.014

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 50, Issue 5 , Pages 400-407 , September 2009

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