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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.
A sociology of mental health and illness
- Authors:
- ROGERS Anne, PILGRIM David
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 327p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Maidenhead
- Edition:
- 4th ed.
This fourth edition updates existing chapters and contains a new chapter entitled ‘public health and the pursuit of happiness’ reflecting the recent focus on the creation of mentally healthy societies. The editors aim to further dismantle professional pretensions surrounding the mastery of mental health problems by focusing on the social, economic and political determinants of mental well-being and highlighting the recent and considerable changes in sociology, social psychiatry, policy analysis and therapeutic law. Chapters cover: Perspectives on mental health, including those from psychiatry, psychoanalysis and psychology; Stigma revisited and lay representations of mental health problems; Social class and mental health; Women and men; Race and ethnicity; Age and ageing; Mental health professions; Treatment of people with mental health problems; Organisation of mental health work; Psychiatry and legal control; and Users of mental health services.