Reflections on dangerousness and its prediction - A truly tantalizing task?

Medicine and Law

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 495-520

  Bauer, A ^a   Gruszniewski, A ^a   Khawaled, R ^a   Grinshpoon, A ^a   Mark, M ^a   Mester, R ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Medicine and law: interaction; contradictions; patients empowerment and human rights; Psychiatric dangerousness: prediction; definitions; history; Psychiatric patients: compulsory hospitalization; legal status; Psychiatric research: philosophical aspects; methods; dilemmas and debates

Indexed keywords

CIVIL DEFENSE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DANGER, RISK, SAFETY AND RELATED PHENOMENA; DRIVER LICENCE; FIREARM; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; ISRAEL; LAW; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MENTAL PATIENT; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PSYCHIATRIST; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0036401465     PISSN: 07231393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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