Police reactions to crimes involving people with mental retardation: A cross-cultural experimental study

Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 160-171

  McAfee, James K ^a   Cockram, Judith ^b   Wolfe, Pamela S ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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