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Has the role of mental health problems in mass shootings been significantly underestimated?
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“multiple researchers have concluded that most perpetrators do not have such symptoms or diagnoses, as described by Lankford and Cowan in 2020 [15].”
From A Moving Target: Firearm Deaths, Mental Health, and the Role of Physicians (2024) · cites this paper as [15]
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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.”
From A Moving Target: Firearm Deaths, Mental Health, and the Role of Physicians (2024) · cites this paper as [15]
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“research indicates such symptoms only account for a small subset of shooters.”
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“while most researchers agree that people with symptoms of serious mental illness are overrepresented in the small pool of mass public shooters”
From A Moving Target: Firearm Deaths, Mental Health, and the Role of Physicians (2024) · cites this paper as [15]
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“While psychotic or other serious psychiatric symptoms may be over-represented among mass shooters, such symptoms are either not present or not a major factor in most of these tragedies.”
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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
- Lankford, A., & Cowan, R. G.
- Venue
- Journal of Threat Assessment and Management
- Published
- 2020-09
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 3-4
- Pages
- 135-156
- ISSN
- 2169-4850
- 2169-4842
- Cited by
- 28
- References
- 0
- Language
- en
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