@article{ref1,
title="Extending social disorganization theory: a multilevel approach to the study of violence among persons with mental illnesses",
journal="Criminology",
year="2000",
author="Silver, Eric",
volume="38",
number="4",
pages="1043-1074",
abstract="Prior studies of violence among individuals with mental illnesses have focused almost exclusively on individual-level characteristics. In this study, I examine whether the structural correlates of neighborhood social disorganization also explain variation in violence. I use data on 270 psychiatric patients who were treated and discharged from an acute inpatient facility combined with tract-level data from the 1990 U.S. Census. I find that living in a socially disorganized neighborhood increased the probability of violence among the sample, an effect that was not mediated by self-reported social supports. Implications for future research in the areas of violence and mental illness are discussed.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0011-1384",
doi="10.1111/j.1745-9125.2000.tb01414.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-9125.2000.tb01414.x"
}