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Elderly people and crime

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

James Lindesay
James Lindesay*
Affiliation:
University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
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Professor of Psychiatry for the Elderly, University of Leicester, Leicester General Hospital, Leicester LE5 4PW, UK.
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Social and psychological gerontology
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Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , May 1996 , pp. 199 - 204
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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