The overuse of criminal justice dispositions: Failure of diversionary policies in the management of mental health problems
- 1 September 1995
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in International Journal of Law and Psychiatry
- Vol. 18 (4) , 389-414
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0160-2527(95)00019-e
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