Ethnicity and dangerousness criteria for court ordered admission to a psychiatric hospital

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 221-224

  Vinkers, D J ^a,b   De Vries, S C ^a   Van Baars, A W B ^a   Mulder, C L ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Netherlands Institute for Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology (NIFP)   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Court ordered admission; Dangerousness criteria; Ethnicity; Neglect of relatives; Violence towards others

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUP; NEGRO; NETHERLANDS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL CLASS; STANDARD; STATISTICS; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; NETHERLANDS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; VIOLENCE;

EID: 77949404062     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-009-0058-9     Document Type: Article

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