Citation

Walker WD, Caplan RP. Med. Sci. Law 1993; 33(4): 300-304.

Affiliation

Peter Hodgkinson Centre, County Hospital, Lincoln.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, British Academy of Forensic Sciences, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8264361

Abstract

Evidence suggests that the level of violence in psychiatric institutions reflects that of society at large. This study investigates this by comparing the psychiatric hospital assault rates and the violent crime rates of two District Health Authorities. The differences between the two districts on each of these parameters were found to be of a very similar order, which would tend to support the hypothesis.

Language: en