Approximately 1,000 people in the United States were fatally shot by police officers during
2018, and people with mental illness were involved in approximately 25 percent of those …

Protection orders are widely used legal interventions intended to reduce the risk of future harm
by one person considered to be a threat to another. However, there has been controversy …

Childhood obesity is a global epidemic and rising trends in overweight and obesity are
apparent in both developed and developing countries. Available estimates for the period …

Objective: In response to the large-scale involvement of people with mental disorders in the
criminal justice system, many communities have created specialized mental health courts in …

… McNiel and Dr. Binder are affiliated with the department of psychiatry of the University of …
McNiel at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, University of California, 401 Parnassus Avenue, …

OBJECTIVES: A variety of tools are being used as leverage to improve adherence to psychiatric
treatment in the community. This study is the first to obtain data on the frequency with …

… McNiel and Binder (1994a) used an … (McNiel, Binder, & Greenfield, 1988). The VSC received
support as an indicator of violence risk in a new sample of hospitalized patients (McNiel & …

… symptoms that are related to violence potential is limited (see McNiel [7] for a review). …
Other research, such as that by Graham (34) and by McNiel and others (35), has shown …

The authors investigated the relationship between community violence and violence in the
hospital for patients hospitalized through emergency civil commitment. The medical charts of …

Objective: Previous research on violence and mental disorder has typically focused on the
relationship between diagnosis and risk of violence or between symptoms within a particular …