Citation

Shah AK. Med. Sci. Law 1993; 33(3): 227-230.

Affiliation

Dept of Psychiatry, Mont Park Hospital Campus, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Copyright

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

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8366785

Abstract

Levels of violence amongst psychiatric in-patients appear to be increasing. Possible reasons for this are explored and include methodological differences between studies, increased staff awareness and perception of violence, changes in staff attitude, changes in psychiatric practice in recent years, staffing levels and increased violence in society generally.

Language: en