Prevalence and Incidence of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Among Federally Sentenced Women in Canada

Criminal Justice and Behavior

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 302-320

  Power, Jenelle ^a   Brown, Shelley L ^a   Usher, Amelia M ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Carleton University ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

mental health; nonsuicidal self injury; prison; women offenders

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873671023     PISSN: 00938548     EISSN: 15523594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093854812474427     Document Type: Article

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