Mental Illness and Gun Violence: Lessons for the United States from Australia and Britain

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 150-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Evans ◽  
Clare Farmer ◽  
Jessica Saligari
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gun Violence

scholarly journals News Media Framing of Serious Mental Illness and Gun Violence in the United States, 1997-2012

2014 ◽  
Vol 104 (3) ◽  
pp. 406-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma E. McGinty ◽  
Daniel W. Webster ◽  
Marian Jarlenski ◽  
Colleen L. Barry
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Serious Mental Illness ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gun Violence

Gun Homicide Research: What We Know and Where We Need to Go

2021 ◽  
pp. 108876792110484
Author(s):  
Shani Buggs ◽  
April M. Zeoli
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
The United States ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Gun Violence ◽  
The State ◽  
Intimate Partner Homicide ◽  
Mass Shootings ◽  
Future Directions

Guns are used in the majority of homicides in the United States, making the problem of homicide largely a problem of gun violence. This article presents three types of gun homicide (mass shootings, intimate partner homicide, and community gun violence), and briefly discusses the state of knowledge on their risk factors and promising interventions. Future directions for research are presented, focusing on examining differential implementation and impacts of interventions by racialized groups and communities, as well as interrogating conventional approaches and methodologies.

Patterns and Trends of Gun Violence Against Women in the United States

2021 ◽  
Vol Publish Ahead of Print ◽  
Author(s):  
Olubode A. Olufajo ◽  
Mallory Williams ◽  
Geeta Ahuja ◽  
Ngozichinyere K. Okereke ◽  
Ahmad Zeineddin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gun Violence

Masculinities and School Gun Violence in the United States

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha Deane
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Shootings ◽  
Gun Violence ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Interaction ◽  
Foucauldian Theory ◽  
The Impact

Schools are sites of personal, political, and symbolic violence. In the United States acts of rampage school gun violence, themselves symbolic, are connected to acts of personal violence via the inscription of social gender norms. Carried out by White teenage boys rampage school shootings call us to grapple with the ways in which schools form and discipline gendered subjectivities. Central to the field of masculinity studies is R. W. Connell’s theory of masculinity which draws on a Gramscian theory of hegemony rather than a Foucauldian theory of power. Whereas Gramsci focuses the ways in which power moves down, Foucault studies the impact of small interaction on our subjective sense of self. When addressing the phenomena of rampage school gun violence where White teenage boys target their schools in acts of gendered rage, a Foucauldian theory of power helps us to take seriously the significance of everyday interaction in legitimating gendered ontologies. Jointly Foucault and the contemporary works of Jane Roland Martin, Amy Shuffelton, and Michel Kimmel point towards an avenue that may afford us the opportunity to root out practices and environments wedded to hegemonic masculinity (and thus rampage school gun violence): the everyday celebration of gender-inclusive and egalitarian ways of learning and living.

scholarly journals Mental illness, drinking, and the social division and structure of labor in the United States: 2003-2015

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seth J. Prins ◽  
Sarah McKetta ◽  
Jonathan Platt ◽  
Carles Muntaner ◽  
Katherine M. Keyes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Division ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals The origins and persistence of psychosurgery in the state of Iowa

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. E8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis J. Jareczek ◽  
Marshall T. Holland ◽  
Matthew A. Howard ◽  
Timothy Walch ◽  
Taylor J. Abel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
The United States ◽  
State Mental Health ◽  
The State ◽  
Medical Community ◽  
State University ◽  
University Of Iowa ◽  
The University ◽  
Frontal Lobotomy

Neurosurgery for the treatment of psychological disorders has a checkered history in the United States. Prior to the advent of antipsychotic medications, individuals with severe mental illness were institutionalized and subjected to extreme therapies in an attempt to palliate their symptoms. Psychiatrist Walter Freeman first introduced psychosurgery, in the form of frontal lobotomy, as an intervention that could offer some hope to those patients in whom all other treatments had failed. Since that time, however, the use of psychosurgery in the United States has waxed and waned significantly, though literature describing its use is relatively sparse. In an effort to contribute to a better understanding of the evolution of psychosurgery, the authors describe the history of psychosurgery in the state of Iowa and particularly at the University of Iowa Department of Neurosurgery. An interesting aspect of psychosurgery at the University of Iowa is that these procedures have been nearly continuously active since Freeman introduced the lobotomy in the 1930s. Frontal lobotomies and transorbital leukotomies were performed by physicians in the state mental health institutions as well as by neurosurgeons at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (formerly known as the State University of Iowa Hospital). Though the early technique of frontal lobotomy quickly fell out of favor, the use of neurosurgery to treat select cases of intractable mental illness persisted as a collaborative treatment effort between psychiatrists and neurosurgeons at Iowa. Frontal lobotomies gave way to more targeted lesions such as anterior cingulotomies and to neuromodulation through deep brain stimulation. As knowledge of brain circuits and the pathophysiology underlying mental illness continues to grow, surgical intervention for psychiatric pathologies is likely to persist as a viable treatment option for select patients at the University of Iowa and in the larger medical community.

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