Ethnicity and detention: are Black and minority ethnic (BME) groups disproportionately detained under the Mental Health Act 2007?

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 703-711

  Gajwani, Ruchika ^a   Parsons, Helen ^b   Birchwood, Max ^b   Singh, Swaran P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BME; Detention; Ethnicity; Mental Health Act; Transcultural psychiatry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958746065     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-016-1181-z     Document Type: Article

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