TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2000//
TI  - Extending social disorganization theory: a multilevel approach to the study of violence among persons with mental illnesses
JO  - Criminology
A1  - Silver, Eric
SP  - 1043
EP  - 1074
VL  - 38
IS  - 4
N2  - 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 />
LA  - en
SN  - 0011-1384
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-9125.2000.tb01414.x
ID  - ref1
ER  -