Negotiating “Dangerousness”: Charting a course between psychiatry and law

Psychiatry, Psychology and Law

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 151-162

  Yannoulidis, Steven T ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; HAZARD; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; JUSTICE; LAW; OFFENDER; PSYCHIATRY; RESPONSIBILITY; REVIEW;

EID: 0036935528     PISSN: 13218719     EISSN: 19341687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/pplt.2002.9.2.151     Document Type: Article

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