Black people and secure psychiatric facilities. Patterns of processing and the role of stereotypes

Afro-Caribbeans and Africans form a greater proportion of patients in secure psychiatric hospitals, compared to their representation in the general population of England and Wales. Research evidence is marshalled from the fields of psychiatry and criminology to produce an explanatory model for this...

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Main Author: Boast, Neil (Author)
Contributors: Chesterman, Paul
Format: Print Article
Language:English
Published: 1995
In: The British journal of criminology
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