Modelling police officers' judgements of the veracity of suicide notes

Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 79-95

  Snook, Brent ^a   Mercer, Jamison C ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bounded rationality; Decision making; Equivocal death analysis; Law enforcement; Psychological models; Suicide

Indexed keywords

EID: 77249087337     PISSN: 17077753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/cjccj.52.1.79     Document Type: Article

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