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Author : Shannon Fiack
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 35,62 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
Series of essays about issues surrounding treatment of the mentally ill with violent tendencies.
Author : Sheilagh Hodgins
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,42 MB
Release : 1992-12-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780803950238
Contributors to this volume present and discuss new data which suggest that major mental disorder substantially increases the risk of violent crime. These findings come at a crucial time, since those who suffer from mental disorders are increasingly living in the community, rather than in institutions. The book describes the magnitude and complexity of the problem and offers hope that humane, effective intervention can prevent violent crime being committed by the seriously mentally disordered.
Author : Liza H. Gold, M.D.
Publisher : American Psychiatric Pub
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 32,72 MB
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1585624985
Perhaps never before has an objective, evidence-based review of the intersection between gun violence and mental illness been more sorely needed or more timely. Gun Violence and Mental Illness, written by a multidisciplinary roster of authors who are leaders in the fields of mental health, public health, and public policy, is a practical guide to the issues surrounding the relation between firearms deaths and mental illness. Tragic mass shootings that capture headlines reinforce the mistaken beliefs that people with mental illness are violent and responsible for much of the gun violence in the United States. This misconception stigmatizes individuals with mental illness and distracts us from the awareness that approximately 65% of all firearm deaths each year are suicides. This book is an apolitical exploration of the misperceptions and realities that attend gun violence and mental illness. The authors frame both pressing social issues as public health problems subject to a variety of interventions on individual and collective levels, including utilization of a novel perspective: evidence-based interventions focusing on assessments and indicators of dangerousness, with or without indications of mental illness. Reader-friendly, well-structured, and accessible to professional and lay audiences, the book: * Reviews the epidemiology of gun violence and its relationship to mental illness, exploring what we know about those who perpetrate mass shootings and school shootings. * Examines the current legal provisions for prohibiting access to firearms for those with mental illness and whether these provisions and new mandated reporting interventions are effective or whether they reinforce negative stereotypes associated with mental illness. * Discusses the issues raised in accessing mental health treatment in regard to diminished treatment resources, barriers to access, and involuntary commitment.* Explores novel interventions for addressing these issues from a multilevel and multidisciplinary public health perspective that does not stigmatize people with mental illness. This includes reviews of suicide risk assessment; increasing treatment engagement; legal, social, and psychiatric means of restricting access to firearms when people are in crisis; and, when appropriate, restoration of firearm rights. Mental health clinicians and trainees will especially appreciate the risk assessment strategies presented here, and mental health, public health, and public policy researchers will find Gun Violence and Mental Illness a thoughtful and thought-provoking volume that eschews sensationalism and embraces serious scholarship.
Author : Teresa L. Scheid
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 735 pages
File Size : 25,77 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521491940
The second edition of A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health provides a comprehensive review of the sociology of mental health. Chapters by leading scholars and researchers present an overview of historical, social and institutional frameworks. Part I examines social factors that shape psychiatric diagnosis and the measurement of mental health and illness, theories that explain the definition and treatment of mental disorders and cultural variability. Part II investigates effects of social context, considering class, gender, race and age, and the critical role played by stress, marriage, work and social support. Part III focuses on the organization, delivery and evaluation of mental health services, including the criminalization of mental illness, the challenges posed by HIV, and the importance of stigma. This is a key research reference source that will be useful to both undergraduates and graduate students studying mental health and illness from any number of disciplines.
Author : Robert A. Schug
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,51 MB
Release : 2014-08-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781412987073
Mental Illness and Crime comprehensively synthesizes and critically examines what is currently known about the relationship of mental illness and individual psychiatric disorders, in particular with criminal, violent, and other forms of antisocial behavior. The book integrates scholarship from psychology, psychiatry, clinical neuroscience, criminology, and law when presenting explanations for and etiologies of mental illness–related criminal and violent behaviors. Moreover, the book provides the reader with a diagnostic understanding of mental disorders across various classification systems, including the current DSM-5 and ICD-10. In addition, Robert A. Schug and Henry F. Fradella critically examine what is known about the treatment and social implications of this body of research, including its practical applications within the criminal justice system. Unique to the field, this text will contribute to a better understanding of criminality and violence and move society toward a greater acceptance of individuals with these illnesses.
Author : Patricia Erickson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 34,92 MB
Release : 2008-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0813545080
Hundreds of thousands of the inmates who populate the nation's jails and prison systems today are identified as mentally ill. Many experts point to the deinstitutionalization of mental hospitals in the 1960s, which led to more patients living on their own, as the reason for this high rate of incarceration. But this explanation does not justify why our society has chosen to treat these people with punitive measures. In Crime, Punishment, and Mental Illness, Patricia E. Erickson and Steven K. Erickson explore how societal beliefs about free will and moral responsibility have shaped current policies and they identify the differences among the goals, ethos, and actions of the legal and health care systems. Drawing on high-profile cases, the authors provide a critical analysis of topics, including legal standards for competency, insanity versus mental illness, sex offenders, psychologically disturbed juveniles, the injury and death rates of mentally ill prisoners due to the inappropriate use of force, the high level of suicide, and the release of mentally ill individuals from jails and prisons who have received little or no treatment.
Author : Elaine Cassel
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 44,70 MB
Release : 2007-04-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 1135614768
Criminal Behavior explores crime as a developmental process from birth through early adulthood. It further examines the role that legal, political, and criminal justice systems play in the development of criminal behavior.
Author : John Monahan
Publisher :
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 36,50 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Crime
ISBN :
Author : Jillian Kaul Peterson
Publisher :
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,60 MB
Release : 2012
Category :
ISBN : 9781267651655
Offenders with mental illness are overrepresented in the criminal justice system. Prior research and public policy has focused on treating symptoms to reduce crime among this population. In this dissertation study, I examine direct and indirect pathways to violent and criminal behavior among people with serious mental illness. In Chapter I, I examine whether or not psychiatric patients are consistently involved in violence preceded by psychosis using the MacArthur Violence Risk data (N=207). I found that violence that is directly preceded by psychosis is rare; most patients were exclusively involved in violence that was not preceded by psychosis. The few direct incidents of violence there were did not cluster by person; instead, the majority of people involved in direct violence were also involved in non-direct violence over the follow-up period. In Chapter II, I expand on the results of Chapter I by examining direct crimes (violent and non-violent) committed by offenders with mental illness over their lifetime. Two-hour life history interviews were conducted with 147 offenders with mental illness recruited through a community corrections office. I found that offenders' crimes tended to vary in their direct relationship with symptoms over the course of their life. Overall, 4% of the total number of crimes demonstrated a direct relationship with psychotic symptoms, 13% of the total number of crimes reported demonstrated a direct relationship with a symptom of mental illness other that psychosis (namely bipolar disorder). In Chapter III, I systematically explore indirect (mediated) relationships between symptoms and crime, focusing on social disadvantage and substance abuse as pathways to criminal behavior. I found that offenders tended to be consistent over time in whether or not they committed indirect crimes. Moreover, indirect crimes were common, and were identified among the majority of offenders. The findings of this dissertation indicate that there may not be `direct offenders', only direct crimes that are committed by offenders with either indirect or independent relationships with symptoms. However, symptoms and crime are not distinct for most offenders; rather, symptoms are an important, integral part of their developmental history that cannot be unraveled and treated separately from their criminality.
Author : Andrew E. Skodol
Publisher : American Psychiatric Pub
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 24,81 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780880488341
Psychopathology and Violent Crime goes to the heart of this controversial and complex subject. Dr. Skodol presents the results of extensive epidemiologic samples and studies of criminal populations on the correlation between crime and mental disorder.