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Chapter 19 - Offending behavior

from Section 4 - Special topics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2016

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John L. Taylor  and
William R. Lindsay
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Colin Hemmings  and
Nick Bouras
Colin Hemmings
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Albion Place Medical Centre
Nick Bouras
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, London
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Psychiatric and Behavioral Disorders in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities , pp. 207 - 223
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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