Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Understanding the Relationship Between Mental Disorder and Violence: The Need for a Criminological Perspective

Understanding the Relationship Between Mental Disorder and Violence: The Need for a... This paper offers a criminologically informed framework to guide research on the relationship between mental disorder and violence. Criminological theories examined include social learning, social stress, social control, rational choice, and social disorganization. In addition, the “criminal careers” and “local life circumstance” methodologies are reviewed. It is argued that adopting a criminologically informed framework that takes into account within-person changes over time will contribute greatly to our understanding of the factors that affect violence among people with mental disorder living in the community, and enhance the capacity of research to support effective evidenced-based case management programs aimed at reducing violence. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Law and Human Behavior American Psychological Association

Understanding the Relationship Between Mental Disorder and Violence: The Need for a Criminological Perspective

Law and Human Behavior , Volume 30 (6): 22 – Dec 14, 2006

Loading next page...
 
/lp/american-psychological-association/understanding-the-relationship-between-mental-disorder-and-violence-r4NmNTt1YT

References (95)

Publisher
American Psychological Association
Copyright
Copyright © 2006 American Psychological Association
ISSN
0147-7307
eISSN
1573-661X
DOI
10.1007/s10979-006-9018-z
pmid
16972182
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

This paper offers a criminologically informed framework to guide research on the relationship between mental disorder and violence. Criminological theories examined include social learning, social stress, social control, rational choice, and social disorganization. In addition, the “criminal careers” and “local life circumstance” methodologies are reviewed. It is argued that adopting a criminologically informed framework that takes into account within-person changes over time will contribute greatly to our understanding of the factors that affect violence among people with mental disorder living in the community, and enhance the capacity of research to support effective evidenced-based case management programs aimed at reducing violence.

Journal

Law and Human BehaviorAmerican Psychological Association

Published: Dec 14, 2006

There are no references for this article.