Journey of family members of homicide victims: A qualitative study of their posthomicide experience

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 372-382

  Armour, Marilyn Peterson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EXPERIENCE; FAMILY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; JUSTICE; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ASPECT; THEORY;

ADULT; FAMILY; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; LONELINESS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0041814561     PISSN: 00029432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0002-9432.72.3.372     Document Type: Article

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