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Classification of Rapists in Massachusetts, 1980-1990

(3 datasets; 3,758 KB)

Principal Investigator(s): Prentky, Robert A.; Knight, Raymond A.

Summary: The purpose of this study was to apply the latest version of a typological system for rapists (MTC:R3) developed at the Massachusetts Treatment Center for Sexually Dangerous Persons (MTC) to a large sample of offenders currently or previously incarcerated at MTC and to examine the system's reliability and concurrent and predictive validity. Data are available from two of the project's components. In the first component, 201 rapists who were committed to MTC between 1958 and 1981... (view details)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09976.v1

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