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From homicide inquiries to high secure hospital inquiries: a decade of social and political restrictive pressure on forensic psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2011

Ceri Evans  and
Deji Oyebode
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Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , December 2000 , pp. 234 - 240
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