Mental illness, gender and homicide: A population-based descriptive study

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 185, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 368-375

  Flynn, Sandra ^a   Abel, Kathryn M ^a   While, David ^a   Mehta, Hetal ^a   Shaw, Jenny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Court; Manslaughter; Men; Murder; Psychiatry; Sentence; Women

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; LEGAL EVIDENCE; LEGAL PROCEDURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL INTERACTION; UNITED KINGDOM;

COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; WALES;

EID: 79251600769     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2010.07.040     Document Type: Article

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