Mental illness and domestic homicide: A population-based descriptive study

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1006-1011

  Oram, Siân ^a   Flynn, Sandra Marie ^b   Shaw, Jenny ^b   Appleby, Louis ^b   Howard, Louise Michele ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DELUSIONAL DISORDER; DEMOGRAPHY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MOOD DISORDER; OFFENDER; PERSONALITY DISORDER; POLICE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK REDUCTION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL WORK; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; PREVALENCE; WALES;

EID: 84885448875     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: 15579700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.201200484     Document Type: Article

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