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Criminal Behaviour and Mental Disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

John Gunn*
Affiliation:
Special Hospitals Research Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1977 

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