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The danger of dangerousness: why we must remove the dangerousness criterion from our mental health acts
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- Published on: 18 May 2017
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Dangerousness criteria (1) are another source of discrimination against the mentally ill, but not the greatest.
There is a statistically and clinically significant association between violence and major mental illness, and some studies have demonstrated that major mental illness is associated with at least a fourfold increase in the chances of violence compared to the general population. (2)
However, a stu...
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