Prison Inmate Characteristics and Suicide Attempt Lethality: An Exploratory Study

Psychological Services

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 351-361

  Magaletta, Philip R ^a   Patry, Marc W ^b   Wheat, Ben ^a   Bates, Jeffery ^c  

^a FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS   (United States)

^b SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Federal Correctional Complex   (United States)

Author keywords

correctional mental health services; inmates; lethality; offenders

Indexed keywords

EID: 58249120803     PISSN: 15411559     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1541-1559.5.4.351     Document Type: Article

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