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Criminal Behaviour and Mental Disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

John Gunn
John Gunn*
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Special Hospitals Research Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 130 , Issue 4 , April 1977 , pp. 317 - 329
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1977 

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