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Mental health homicide inquiries in England 2010–2023: review of methodology and findings – commentary, Crichton

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John H. M. Crichton*
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University of Edinburgh School of Law, Edinburgh, UK Royal College of Psychiatrists, London, UK
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Email: john.crichton@rcpsych.ac.uk
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Risk assessmenthomicideclinical governancecausal inferenceforensic psychiatry

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 227 , Issue 4 , October 2025 , pp. 734 - 735
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Royal College of Psychiatrists

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