Criminal Thinking as a Mediator of the Mental Illness-Prison Violence Relationship: A Path Analytic Study and Causal Mediation Analysis

Psychological Services

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 189-199

  Walters, Glenn D ^a  

^a FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Criminal thinking; Mediation; Mental illness; Prison violence; Prisoners

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052016913     PISSN: 15411559     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024684     Document Type: Article

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