Mass homicide: The civil massacre

Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 55-63

  Cantor, Christopher H ^a   Mullen, Paul E ^b   Alpers, Philip A ^c  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; FIREARM; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; GUNSHOT INJURY; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; SCHOOL; SUICIDE; UNITED KINGDOM; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; GREAT BRITAIN; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0034045103     PISSN: 10936793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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