Offence characteristics, trauma histories and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in life sentenced prisoners

British Journal of Forensic Practice

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 17-25

  Payne, Elizabeth ^a   Watt, Andrew ^b   Rogers, Paul ^c   McMurran, Mary ^d  

^a HMP PARC   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Instrumental violence; Killers; Non killers; PTSD; Reactive violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 44449092671     PISSN: 14636646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14636646200800004     Document Type: Article

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