These depictions are criticized for reinforcing the social stigma and disadvantages many of the mentally ill face. The media does, however, require news sources and, in the context of crime and mental illness, the courts are a significant source. Through qualitative content analysis of Australian ...
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ContextSince deinstitutionalization, most persons with severe mental illness (SMI) now live in the community, where they are at great risk for crime
Attorney’s planning mental illness defense in Kwik Trip stabbing death Updated: Apr. 4, 2025 at 6:08 AM GMT+8| By Dion Cheney Michael Lee Miller is charged with 2nd degree murder in the killing of Dennis Vosika at the Madison Avenue Kwik Trip on March 18. Minnesota Morristown man char...
Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver is an unsettling character study that uses the lens of crime to explore themes of alienation, mental illness, and self-destruction. With Robert De Niro’s masterful performance as the disturbed and alienated Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle, the film paints a portrait ...
The medical community expressed concerns about the misconceptions that have been spread after an elementary school teacher recently killed a student at her school in Daejeon because she was on leave for mental illness.Experts said mental illness, includi
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The study didn't find any predictable patterns linking criminal conduct and mental illness symptoms over time. Two-thirds of the offenders who had committed crimes directly related to their mental illness symptoms also had committed unrelated crimes for other reasons, such as poverty, unemployment, h...
Canada needs to change its approach to mentally ill prisoners as correctional facilities worldwide contain a higher percentage of people with mental illness than the general population, states an editorial in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) .