Genetic factors and criminal behavior

Federal Probation

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 24-27

  Tehrani, Jasmine A ^b   Mednick, Sarnoff A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

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