Trends in rates of mental illness in homicide perpetrators

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 198, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 485-489

  Swinson, Nicola ^a   Flynn, Sandra M ^a   While, David ^a   Roscoe, Alison ^a   Kapur, Navneet ^a   Appleby, Louis ^a   Shaw, Jenny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; DRUG MISUSE; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; OFFENDER; PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; UNITED KINGDOM;

CHILD; CRIMINAL LAW; DATABASES AS TOPIC; DIAGNOSIS, DUAL (PSYCHIATRY); ENGLAND; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; INFANT; INSANITY DEFENSE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; WALES;

EID: 79957973547     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: 14721465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.110.085357     Document Type: Article

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