VIOLENCE AND VICTIMS - THE CONTRIBUTION OF VICTIMOLOGY TO FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY
VIOLENCE AND VICTIMS - THE CONTRIBUTION OF VICTIMOLOGY TO FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY
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DOI:
10.1016/s0140-6736(87)91977-5
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发表时间:
1987-01-17
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影响因子:
168.9
通讯作者:
HAMILTON, JR
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作者:
HAMILTON, JR
WHEN looking at violence forensic psychiatrists have tended to concentrate on the offender, neglecting the possibility that victims may wittingly or unwittingly contribute to their own plight. We are beginning to learn more of the true incidence of victimisation through physical, sexual, and psychological abuse in childhood. The continued search for the origins of psychological disorder and of the roots of violence should examine more thoroughly the theory that child abuse may lead to the sufferers becoming in adult life either psychiatric patients or violent offenders.The physical, psychological, and social effects of violence are interlinked. Gunn1 has pointed out that brain damage in battered babies may be permanent and Lishman2 has shown that intellectual, behavioural, and emotional disturbances after head injury are related to temporal lobe damage. With frontal lobe damage, disinhibited and antisocial behaviour can occur, as well as affective disorder and somatic