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Epidemiology, Risk Factors, and Prevention of Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviour in Prisons: A Literature Review

Psychologica Belgica
Volume 61 (2021): Issue 1
By: Louis Favril  
Open Access
|Nov 2021

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/pb.1072 | Journal eISSN: 0033-2879
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Language: English
Submitted on: Mar 27, 2021
Accepted on: Oct 19, 2021
Published on: Nov 22, 2021
Published by: Ubiquity Press
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Keywords:
suicide,
self-harm,
ideation,
action,
vulnerability,
stress

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