Growing-up conditions and current psychosocial situation among kleptomaniacs and shoplifters

American Journal of Forensic Psychiatry

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 5-20

  Sarasalo, Elina ^a   Bergman, Bo ^a   Toth, Janos ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b Karolinska Institute ^*

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