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Homicide due to mental disorder in England and Wales over 50 years

dc.contributor.author Large, M. en_US
dc.contributor.author Smith, G. en_US
dc.contributor.author Swinson, N. en_US
dc.contributor.author Shaw, J. en_US
dc.contributor.author Nielssen, O. en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-25T13:08:07Z
dc.date.available 2021-11-25T13:08:07Z
dc.date.issued 2008 en_US
dc.description.abstract Background It has been stated that rates of homicide due to mental disorder are constant over time. Aims To examine whether there were changes in the rates of homicide due to mental disorder over time, and whether changes in these rates were associated with changes in the rates of other homicides in England and Wales. Method Examination of four sets of official homicide statistics from England and Wales from 1946 to 2004. Results The rate of total homicide and the rate of homicide due to mental disorder rose steadily until the mid-1970s. From then there was a reversal in the rate of homicides attributed to mental disorder, which declined to historically low levels, while other homicides continued to rise. Conclusions The reasons for the rise and fall in homicides attributed to mental disorder are not clear. The earlier increase in such homicides may have been due to the same sociological factors that caused the increase in other homicides over that time. The subsequent decline may have been due to improvements in psychiatric treatments and service organisation. Another possibility is that there has been an informal change to the legal tests for the finding of homicide due to mental disorder. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 0007-1250 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/39232
dc.language English
dc.language.iso EN en_US
dc.rights CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 en_US
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ en_US
dc.source Legacy MARC en_US
dc.title Homicide due to mental disorder in England and Wales over 50 years en_US
dc.type Journal Article en
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unsw.identifier.doiPublisher http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp.107.046581 en_US
unsw.relation.faculty Medicine & Health
unsw.relation.ispartofissue 2 en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofjournal British Journal of Psychiatry en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofpagefrompageto 130-133 en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofvolume 193 en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Large, M. en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Smith, G. en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Swinson, N. en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Shaw, J. en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Nielssen, O., Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.school School of Psychiatry *
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