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Commentary on “Inquiries: who needs them?”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Adrian Grounds*
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University Lecturer and Hon Consultant in Forensic Psychiatry, Institute of Criminology and Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT
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