Somewhere over the rainbow: Improving violence risk management in institutional settings

International Journal of Forensic Mental Health

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 150-158

  Cooke, David J ^a,b   Johnstone, Lorraine ^a  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Institutional violence; PRISM; Public health models of violence; Violence risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874475501     PISSN: 14999013     EISSN: 19329903     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14999013.2010.526463     Document Type: Article

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