Mental Illness and Violence: The Newtown School Massacre
Author: Fred Cohen .
Source: Volume 15, Number 01, May/June 2013 , pp.11-11(1)
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Abstract:
The need for greater access to decent mental health care inside the correctional system and in the outside community stands apart from mass murders and it taints the need by associating it so directly with terrifying events.Keywords: New York State, Mental Hygiene Law, Section 9.46, Tarasoff v. Regents of University of California, 551 P.2d 334, "Warning Signs of Violent Acts Often Unclear", N.Y. Times, p. 1 (Jan. 16, 2013)
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