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Between prison and the community

The ‘revolving door psychiatric patient’ of the nineties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2018

Luke Birmingham
Luke Birmingham*
Affiliation:
Reaside Clinic, Birmingham Great Park, Bristol Road South, Birmingham B45 9BE, Fax: 0121-453-7181
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 174 , Issue 5 , May 1999 , pp. 378 - 379
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Copyright © 1999 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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