Criminal mutilation of the human body in Sweden - A thirty-year medico- legal and forensic psychiatric study

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 563-580

  Rajs, Jovan ^a   Lundström, Maja ^a   Broberg, Magnus ^c   Lidberg, Lars ^c   Lindquist, Olle ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Forensic pathology; Forensic psychiatry; Forensic science; Mutilation; Perpetrators; Sweden; Victims

Indexed keywords

ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; MOTIVATION; OFFENDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPATHY; SWEDEN; VICTIM; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRIME VICTIMS; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SWEDEN; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0031596899     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1520/jfs16183j     Document Type: Article

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