Suicides by prisoners (for editorial comment, see page 181; see also page 218)
- 1 August 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in The Medical Journal of Australia
- Vol. 151 (4) , 188-190
- https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1989.tb115987.x
Abstract
In a consecutive series of 44 deaths of male prisoners in Brisbane Prison, a maximum‐security prison, in the 15‐year period 1973–1987, 20 deaths were a result of suicide. More than half the ...This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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