Domestic homicide and homicide-suicide: The older offender

Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 305-311

  Bourget, Dominique ^a,b   Gagné, Pierre ^b,c   Whitehurst, Laurie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b Coroner ^*  (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; MALE; OFFENDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SUICIDE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CRIMINALS; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; MALE; QUEBEC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SUICIDE;

EID: 77956905340     PISSN: 10936793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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