Creating HoPE: Mental Health in Western Australian Maximum Security Prisons
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychiatry, Psychology and Law
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1321-8719,1934-1687
DOI: 10.1080/13218719.2010.543405