Schizophrenia disorders, substance abuse and prior offending in a sequential series of 435 homicides

@article{Bennett2011SchizophreniaDS,
  title={Schizophrenia disorders, substance abuse and prior offending in a sequential series of 435 homicides},
  author={Debra Bennett and James R. P. Ogloff and Paul Edward Mullen and S. Thomas and Cameron Wallace and Tamsin Bernice Short},
  journal={Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica},
  year={2011},
  volume={124}
}
Bennett DJ, Ogloff JRP, Mullen PE, Thomas SDM, Wallace C, Short T. Schizophrenia disorders, substance abuse and prior offending in a sequential series of 435 homicides. 
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