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1 online resource |
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Gun violence and serious mental illness / Emma McGinty and Daniel Webster -- Firearms and suicide in the United States / Matthew Miller, Catherine Barber, Deborah Azrael -- Gun violence, urban youth, and mental illness / Carl Bell -- Mass shootings and mental illness / James L. Knoll, IV, George D. Annas -- School shootings and mental illness / Peter Ash -- Mental illness and the national instant criminal background check system / Marilyn Price, Patricia Recupero, Donna Norris -- Mental illness, dangerousness, and involuntary commitment / Eric Drogin and Carol Spaderna -- Accessing mental health care / Robert Trestman, Fred Volkmar, and Liza Gold -- Structured violence risk assessment : implications for preventing gun violence / Daniel C. Murrie -- Suicide and firearms : risk assessment and public policy / Robert I. Simon, Liza H. Gold -- Treatment engagement, access to services and civil commitment reform : would these strategies help reduce firearm-related risks? / Debra A. Pinals -- Preventing gun violence : decreasing access to firearms during times of crisis / Josh Horwitz, Anna Grilley, and Kelly Ward -- Relief from disabilities : mental health evaluations in firearm rights restoration hearings / Liza Gold and Donna Vanderpool -- Decreasing gun violence : social and public health interventions / Shannon Frattaroli, Shani A.L. Buggs |
| Summary |
Perhaps never before has an objective, evidence-based review of the intersection between gun violence and mental illness been more sorely needed or more timely. Gun Violence and Mental Illness, written by a multidisciplinary roster of authors who are leaders in the fields of mental health, public health, and public policy, is a practical guide to the issues surrounding the relation between firearms deaths and mental illness. Tragic mass shootings that capture headlines reinforce the mistaken beliefs that people with mental illness are violent and responsible for much of the gun violence in the United States. This misconception stigmatizes individuals with mental illness and distracts us from the awareness that approximately 65% of all firearm deaths each year are suicides. This book is an apolitical exploration of the misperceptions and realities that attend gun violence and mental illness. The authors frame both pressing social issues as public health problems subject to a variety of interventions on individual and collective levels, including utilization of a novel perspective: evidence-based interventions focusing on assessments and indicators of dangerousness, with or without indications of mental illness. -- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Violence -- Risk assessment -- United States
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Dangerously mentally ill -- United States
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Firearms ownership -- Risk assessment -- United States
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Gun control -- United States
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Violence.
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Suicide.
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Mentally ill women.
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Mentally Ill Persons
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Firearms -- legislation & jurisprudence
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Violence
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Mental Disorders -- psychology
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Suicide
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Risk Assessment -- methods
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violence.
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suicides.
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mentally ill.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Dangerously mentally ill
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Gun control
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gold, Liza H., 1958- editor.
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Simon, Robert I., editor.
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| ISBN |
9781585624980 |
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1585624985 |
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9781615370634 |
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1615370633 |
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