Psychiatric hospital capacity, homelessness, and crime and arrest rates

Criminology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 45-72

  Markowitz, Fred E ^a,b  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NIMH Chicago Consortium for Stigma Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Crime; Deinstitutionalization; Homelessness; Mental illness; Psychiatric hospitals

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645067366     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: 17459125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2006.00042.x     Document Type: Article

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