Prosecuting psychiatric inpatients - Where is the thin blue line?

Medicine, Science and the Law

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 7-12

  Brown, Adrian R ^a  

^a RAMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33644895423     PISSN: 00258024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/rsmmsl.46.1.7     Document Type: Article

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