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Swanson, Jeffrey W, Allison Gilbert Robertson, Linda K Frisman, Michael A Norko, Hsiu-Ju Lin, Marvin S Swartz and Philip J Cook. 2013 ‘Preventing Gun Violence Involving People with Serious Mental Illness.’ Reducing Gun Violence in America: Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis; Part I, Chapter 3, p. 34. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. 25 January

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Preventing Gun Violence Involving People with Serious Mental Illness…

[A] multiple-casualty shooting by a disturbed individual is a statistically rare and virtually unpredictable event (Nielssen et al. 2009; Swanson 2011)…

In this essay, we take as a starting place the inherent tension between public safety and civil rights in considering mental illness as a significant concern for firearms policy and law. This means grappling with the full range of social benefits and costs that may accrue in casting a wide net with a broad mesh to find a few dangerous people among the many with largely non-dangerous disorders of thought, mood, and behavior…

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Nielssen, Olav, Dominique Bourget, Taina Laajasalo, et al. 2009. "Homicide of Strangers by People with a Psychotic Illness." Schizophrenia Bulletin 35: 1012–1021.

Swanson, Jeffrey W. 2011. "Preventing the Unpredicted: Managing Violence Risk in Mental Health Care." Psychiatric Services 59: 191–193.

ID: Q6719

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