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Assessing the Risk of Violent Behavior Before Issuing a License to Carry a Handgun

Yuval Melamed, Arie Bauer, Moshe Kalian, Paula Rosca and Roberto Mester
Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online December 2011, 39 (4) 543-548;
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vol. 39 no. 4 543-548
PubMed 
22159982

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Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
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1093-6793
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  • Published online December 12, 2011.

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  1. Yuval Melamed, MD, MHA,
  2. Arie Bauer, MD, LLB,
  3. Moshe Kalian, MD,
  4. Paula Rosca, MD and
  5. Roberto Mester, MD
  1. Dr. Melamed is Deputy Director, Lev Hasharon Mental Health Center, Netanya, Israel, and Clinical Associate Professor, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel. Dr. Bauer is Head of the Forensic Psychiatry Department, Israel Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel. Dr. Kalian is Jerusalem District Psychiatrist, Jerusalem, Israel. Dr. Rosca is Head of the Department for the Treatment of Substance Abuse, Israel Ministry of Health, and Hadassah Medical School, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. Dr. Mester is with the Psychiatry, Law and Ethics Department, Faculty of Law, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel.
  1. Address correspondence to: Yuval Melamed, MD, MHA, Deputy Director, Lev Hasharon Mental Health Center, PO Box 90000, Netanya 42100, Israel. E-mail: ymelamed{at}post.tau.ac.il.

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