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Psychosis and mass shootings: A systematic examination using publicly available data.
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“The authors concluded that increased access to mental health services “may help prevent mass shootings in a minority of cases” of what is already a very low base rate event. [17]”
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“certain mental health symptoms may play a role in a small fraction of gun violence, but other risk factors account for most violence risk.”
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“Peterson, et al. conducted an open-source investigation into the role of psychotic symptoms in 168 mass shootings carried out by 172 perpetrators. They concluded that psychotic symptoms “may have played a minor role in 11% of cases, a moderate role in 9% of cases, and a major role in 11% of cases.””
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“research indicates such symptoms only account for a small subset of shooters.”
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“Centering policy discussions around mental illness is not effective in decreasing violence, and only serves to stigmatize an already vulnerable population.”
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A Moving Target: Firearm Deaths, Mental Health, and the Role of Physicians
Soliman, L., Baines-Waiz, O., Rozel, J. S., Blankenship, K., & Rachal, J. (2024) · Current Psychiatry Reports · doi:10.1007/s11920-024-01569-2 · Cited by 1
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- Authors
- Peterson, J. K., Densley, J. A., Knapp, K., Higgins, S., & Jensen, A.
- Venue
- Psychology, Public Policy, and Law
- Published
- 2022-05
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 280-291
- ISSN
- 1939-1528
- 1076-8971
- Cited by
- 28
- References
- 0
- Language
- en
- Funders
- National Institute of Justice (2018-75-CX-0023)
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