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Mental disorder and violence: an empirical picture in context
- Authors:
- PILGRIM David, ROGERS Anne
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 12(1), February 2003, pp.7-18.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
The assumed relationship between mental disorder and violence is empirically contested and yet politicians remain concerned about the special threat which psychiatric patients allegedly pose to public safety. This paper aims to explore how this public policy scenario has arisen. The evidence about dangerousness in psychiatric populations is examined in relation to patient, ecological and socio-economic factors. Given that the above evidence provides only weak grounds for concern about psychiatric patients being disproportionately dangerous, the skewed policy discourse noted in the background is explained by describing three contextualising factors: public prejudice; the widening remit of deviance-control by psychiatry during the twentieth century; and inconsistent societal sanctions about dangerousness.
Mental health and inequality
- Authors:
- ROGERS Anne, PILGRIM David
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 278p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
This book examines the relationship between the knowledge base of mental health professionals, evidence about inequalities and mental health service utilization. Starting with a critical appraisal of traditional psychiatric epidemiology, it moves into an exploration of the inequalities created by familial and neighborhood influences, service contact and challenges during the life span. Controversies in mental health debates, about violence and different forms of psychiatric treatment, are discussed within a framework of social inequalities.