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Smallbone, Stephen W.; Dadds, Mark R. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 1998
Forty-eight incarcerated sex offenders were compared with 16 property offenders and 16 nonoffenders on self-report measures of childhood maternal and paternal attachment and adult attachment. Results suggest that insecure childhood attachments may be related to offending behavior generally and that certain combinations of childhood attachment…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Development, Correctional Institutions, Criminals