Expert approaches to communicating violence risk

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 137-148

  Heilbrun, Kirk ^a   O'Neill, Melanie L ^a   Strohman, Lisa K ^a   Bowman, Quinten ^a   Philipson, Judith ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHOLOGIST; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOLOGY; VIOLENCE;

EXPERT TESTIMONY; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0033974565     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005435005404     Document Type: Article

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