Commentary: Update on Assessing Risk for Violence among Stalkers

Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 440-443

  Schwartz Watts, Donna M ^a,c   Rowell, Ceclie N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b FURMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; INTIMACY; NOTE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STALKING; VIOLENCE;

COMORBIDITY; CRIME VICTIMS; CRIMINAL LAW; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; INSANITY DEFENSE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 1642434315     PISSN: 10936793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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