Preventing gun violence involving people with serious mental illness

Reducing Gun Violence in America: Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis

Volumn 9781421411118, Issue , 2013, Pages 33-51

  Swanson, Jeffrey W ^a   Robertson, Allison Gilbert ^a   Frisman, Linda K ^b   Norko, Michael A ^b,c   Lin, Hsiu Ju ^b   Swartz, Marvin S ^d,e   Cook, Philip J ^f,g  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Connecticut School of Social Work   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Division of Social and Community Psychiatry   (United States)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^f DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

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