The Prevalence of Alcohol-Involved Homicide Offending: A Meta-Analytic Review

Homicide Studies

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 251-270

  Kuhns, Joseph B ^a   Exum, M Lyn ^a   Clodfelter, Tammatha A ^b   Bottia, Martha Cecilia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

alcohol; homicide; intoxication; meta analysis; offender

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902531053     PISSN: 10887679     EISSN: 15526720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1088767913493629     Document Type: Article

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