for example, in the Ispwich murders and in the Dublin murder of 20 year old Anthony Campbell
Violence due to Mental Illness:
“Many crimes of violence are certainly being committed by people with diminished faculties. A situation currently exists, where patients who were formerly in long-term in-patient care in psychiatric hospitals have been discharged for continuing care in out-patient treatment, in line with the state’s on-going policy of drastically reducing the number of patients in psychiatric hospitals. This has led to major difficulties in treating psychiatric illness in out-patient community settings, …due to lack of motivation by patients to attend for medication and continuing psychiatric assessment, vital to the control of much mental illness. This is exacerbated by the fact that the number of people seeking treatment has continued to increase. Violence committed by people with psychiatric illness has become a major problem for communities expected to care for them.
2006-12-16
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