Identifying subtypes of civil psychiatric patients at high risk for violence

Criminal Justice and Behavior

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 392-437

  Skeem, Jennifer L ^a   Mulvey, Edward P ^b   Appelbaum, Paul ^c   Banks, Steven ^c   Grisso, Thomas ^c   Silver, Eric ^d   Robbins, Pamela Clark ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Policy Research Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Psychiatric patients; Psychopathy; Psychosis; Subtypes; Variants; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 3543012578     PISSN: 00938548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093854803262585     Document Type: Article

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