Gun Violence and Victimization of Strangers by Persons With a Mental Illness: Data From the MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Study
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Violence and delusions: data from the MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Study.
OBJECTIVE Previous work has suggested that delusions are associated with a higher risk of violence, particularly delusions in which patients believe that people are seeking to harm them or that outside forces are controlling their minds (denoted as "threat/control override" delusions). This study explores the relationship between delusions and violence among patients recently discharged from ac...
متن کاملDelusions, anger, and serious violence: new findings from the MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Study.
INTRODUCTION Recent research on the association between delusions and violence has suggested complex and differing pathways. Furthermore, it has been emphasized that temporal proximity is fundamental when investigating these relationships. We reanalyzed data from the MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Study utilizing a different methodological approach to investigate associations between specif...
متن کاملRecent victimization increases risk for violence in justice-involved persons with mental illness.
A large body of research has examined relationships between distal experiences of victimization and the likelihood of engaging in violence later in life. Less is known about the influence of recent violent victimization on risk for violence perpetration. To our knowledge, this is the first study to examine prospectively whether recent victimization in adulthood increases the risk of future viol...
متن کاملPsychopathy and community violence among civil psychiatric patients: results from the MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Study.
Although psychopathy is recognized as a relatively strong risk factor for violence among inmates and mentally disordered offenders, few studies have examined the extent to which its predictive power generalizes to civil psychiatric samples. Using data on 1,136 patients from the MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment project, this study examined whether the 2 scales that underlie the Psychopathy Che...
متن کاملThe Comparison of Adaptability and Domestic Violence Among Family With Chornic and Mental Illness
The purpose of this study was to determine the rate difference of adaptability and domestic violence in families with children with mental illness chronic and regular in Borujen City. The statistic population of the study included all families with children who have chronic mental illness admitted to daycare centers (girls and boys) in Borujen City including 180 people that among them 30 girls ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Psychiatric Services
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1075-2730,1557-9700
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.201400512