Mental healthCrimeViolenceAggressionResearch investigating the link between mental health, crime and violence often rely on populations that are at a high-risk of violent and criminal behaviour, such as prison inmates and psychiatric patients. As a result of this selection bias, the relationship ...
There is a significant area of overlap between deviant behaviour, crime and mental ill-health. While some deviant behaviour involves creative individuals who are not anti-social, the main focus in this chapter is on the consequences of ‘problem’ deviance. To this end the chapter deals with co...
ContextThe relationship between mental illness and violence has a significant effect on mental health policy, clinical practice, and public opinion about
24. There is a growing understanding of the link between excessive screen time and poor mental health. 25. The investigation found a link between the suspect's fingerprints and the crime scene. 26. The study examines the link between diet and heart health. 27. There is a strong link betwe...
Do social medi a hav e a negativ e impa ct on your mental health? It's complicated.In a recent study, th e investigators compared social medi a us e an d depression between teen.s. 36 Specifically, for every hour per da that on e teen spent on social medi a mor e tha n her ...
This ethos of “wokeness” is reflected also in the publication’s coverage of mental illness when connections between mental health and systemic oppression are made (seen for example in a piece that connects depression and suicide rates among transgender kids with stigma and hostility against them ...
So what might be driving this association between heat and gun violence? “It could be that heat causes stress, which makes people more likely to use aggression,” Dr. Jay says. “Or it could be that people are more likely to get out on warmer days and have more interactions, wh...
We propose a conceptual framework to examine the association between mothers' vulnerability to intimate partner violence (IPV) and children's human capital. An important contribution of our framework is that it uses multiple dimensions of human capital and identifies several pathways through which the ...
The fields of criminal justice and public health intersect in various ways in the United States. Certain criminal behaviors, criminal and delinquent rehabilitation, and the fear of crime have public health implications to the extent they shape...
As sociological theory focused less on explaining violence, an increasingly pragmatic and practitioner-oriented criminology claimed violence as one of its key topics of study, but with an emphasis primarily on violence as a synonymous either with crime or with mental health issues (cf. Reiss and Ro...