Families of Homicide Victims: Service Utilization Patterns of Extra- and Intrafamilial Homicide Survivors

Journal of Family Violence

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 75-82

  Horne, Christopher ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crisis intervention; Crisis theory; Homicide; Homicide survivors

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037236648     PISSN: 08857482     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022831530134     Document Type: Review

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