Suicide by police: A proposed typology of law enforcement officer-assisted suicide

Policing

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 339-355

  Homant, Robert J ^a   Kennedy, Daniel B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Individual behaviour; Police; Suicide

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041161150     PISSN: 1363951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13639510010343029     Document Type: Article

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