What violent offenders remember of their crime: Empirical explorations

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 40, Issue 6-7, 2006, Pages 508-518

  Evans, Ceri ^a  

^a Hillmorton Hospital   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Amnesia; Crime; Intrusion; Memory; PTSD

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY; CLINICAL STUDY; CRIME; EMPIRICISM; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEMORY DISORDER; OFFENDER; PHENOMENOLOGY; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHIATRY; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL CRIME; STANDARDIZATION; VIOLENCE;

AMNESIA; CRIME; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; MEMORY; RECURRENCE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VIOLENCE;

EID: 33744458201     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1614.2006.01833.x     Document Type: Review

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