{"title":"Mental illness, dangerousness and protecting society","authors":"Jill Peay","doi":"10.1016/j.mppsy.2009.09.013","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The article reviews some of the possible factors, namely the existence of special legal provisions, the facility for compulsory treatment and the role of the media and academic publications, which may contribute to the enhanced perception of risk to others from those with mental disorder and the relative neglect of mentally disordered people as victims of crime.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":88653,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry (Abingdon, England)","volume":"8 12","pages":"Pages 490-492"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.mppsy.2009.09.013","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Psychiatry (Abingdon, England)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1476179309002158","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The article reviews some of the possible factors, namely the existence of special legal provisions, the facility for compulsory treatment and the role of the media and academic publications, which may contribute to the enhanced perception of risk to others from those with mental disorder and the relative neglect of mentally disordered people as victims of crime.