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| Jenny ShawSummaryAffiliation: University of Manchester Country: UK Publications
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Suicide by prisoners. National clinical surveyJenny Shaw
Centre for Suicide Prevention, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Br J Psychiatry 184:263-7. 2004..The number of suicides in prison has increased over recent years. This is the first study to describe the clinical care of a national sample of prison suicides...
Mental illness in people who kill strangers: longitudinal study and national clinical surveyJenny Shaw
National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness, Centre for Suicide Prevention, School of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL
BMJ 328:734-7. 2004..To establish changes over time in the frequency of homicides committed by strangers, and to describe the personal and clinical characteristics of perpetrators of stranger homicides...- Suicide amongst psychiatric in-patients who abscond from the ward: a national clinical surveyIsabelle M Hunt
National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness, Centre for Suicide Prevention, Jean McFarlane Building, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
BMC Psychiatry 10:14. 2010..The goal of this study was to describe the social and clinical characteristics of people who had absconded from an in-patient psychiatric ward prior to suicide, including aspects of the clinical care they received... - Rates of mental disorder in people convicted of homicide. National clinical surveyJenny Shaw
Centre for Suicide Prevention, University of Manchester, Williamson Building, Oxford ford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
Br J Psychiatry 188:143-7. 2006..Most perpetrators with a history of mental disorder were not acutely ill or under mental healthcare at the time of the offence. Some perpetrators receive prison sentences despite having severe mental illness... - Suicide within 12 months of mental health service contact in different age and diagnostic groups: National clinical surveyIsabelle M Hunt
Centre for Suicide Prevention, University of Manchester, Williamson Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
Br J Psychiatry 188:135-42. 2006..Suicide prevention is a health service priority but the most effective approaches to prevention may differ between different patient groups... - Suicide in schizophrenia: findings from a national clinical surveyIsabelle M Hunt
National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness, Centre for Suicide Prevention, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
J Psychiatr Pract 12:139-47. 2006..A reduction in suicide among individuals with mental illness is an international public-health priority. Approximately 10% of patients with schizophrenia will die by suicide... - Perpetrators of homicide with schizophrenia: a national clinical survey in England and WalesJanet Meehan
Department of Psychiatry, University of Manchester, Williamson Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, Lancashire, United Kingdom M13 9PL
Psychiatr Serv 57:1648-51. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: Regular assessment of delusions may help to detect an increased risk of violence, including homicide. More intensive care should be available for patients with a history of schizophrenia and previous violence... - Suicide in mental health in-patients and within 3 months of discharge. National clinical surveyJanet Meehan
Centre for Suicide Prevention, University of Manchester, Williamson Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
Br J Psychiatry 188:129-34. 2006..Prevention of suicide after discharge requires early community follow-up and closer supervision of high-risk patients... 
Suicide pacts in the mentally ill: a national clinical surveyIsabelle M Hunt
National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness, Centre for Suicide Prevention, University Place, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
Psychiatry Res 167:131-8. 2009..Awareness of the family environment may contribute to reduced risk...- The role of alcohol and drugs in homicides in England and WalesJenny Shaw
National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness, Centre for Suicide Prevention, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Addiction 101:1117-24. 2006..The annual number of homicide convictions in England and Wales is increasing. Previous studies have highlighted the aetiological role of alcohol and drugs in homicide... - Suicide in juveniles and adolescents in the United KingdomKirsten Windfuhr
Centre for Suicide Prevention, National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness, University of Manchester, Manchester M139PL, UK
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 49:1155-65. 2008..Suicide is a leading cause of death among youths. Comparatively few studies have studied recent trends over time, or examined rates and characteristics of service contact in well-defined national samples... - Method of suicide in the mentally ill: a national clinical surveyIsabelle M Hunt
Centre for Suicide Prevention, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Suicide Life Threat Behav 40:22-34. 2010..We found that hanging, self-poisoning, and jumping (from a height or in front of a moving vehicle) were the most common methods of suicide, accounting for 79% of all deaths. The implications of these and other findings are discussed... - Suicide in current psychiatric in-patients: a case-control study The National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and HomicideIsabelle M Hunt
Centre for Suicide Prevention, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Psychol Med 37:831-7. 2007..Few controlled studies have investigated factors associated with suicide in current in-patients. We aimed to identify psychosocial, behavioural and clinical risk factors, including variations in care, for in-patient suicide... - Suicide risk among violent and sexual criminal offendersRoger T Webb
Centre for Suicide Prevention, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, England
J Interpers Violence 27:3405-24. 2012..They also indicate a clear need for developing effective multiagency interventions that effectively tackle both forms of destructive behavior... - A population-based study of juvenile perpetrators of homicide in England and WalesCathryn Rodway
The National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness, Centre for Suicide Prevention, Floor 2, Jean McFarlane Building, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
J Adolesc 34:19-28. 2011..Strengthening engagement with young offenders and increasing resources to prevent recidivism may also be beneficial... - Suicide in the homeless within 12 months of contact with mental health services : a national clinical survey in the UKHarriet Bickley
National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness, Centre for Suicide Prevention, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Williamson Building, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 41:686-91. 2006..Suicide prevention is a health service priority. Homeless mental health patients present a challenge to services because of their complex health and social needs... - Birthday blues: examining the association between birthday and suicide in a national sampleAlyson Williams
National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness, Centre for Suicide Prevention, University of Manchester, UK
Crisis 32:134-42. 2011..Socioculturally meaningful events have been shown to influence the timing of suicide, but the influence of psychiatric disorder on these associations has seldom been studied... - Suicide in psychiatric in-patients in England, 1997 to 2003Navneet Kapur
National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness, Centre for Suicide Prevention, Williamson Building, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Psychol Med 36:1485-92. 2006..Psychiatric in-patients are at particularly high risk of suicide but few studies have investigated trends in in-patient suicide over time... - Trends in rates of mental illness in homicide perpetratorsNicola Swinson
National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness, Centre for Suicide Prevention, University of Manchester, UK
Br J Psychiatry 198:485-9. 2011..The rise in homicides by those with serious mental illness is of concern, although this increase may not be continuing... - Implementation of mental health service recommendations in England and Wales and suicide rates, 1997-2006: a cross-sectional and before-and-after observational studyDavid While
National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness, Centre for Suicide Prevention, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, University of Manchester, UK
Lancet 379:1005-12. 2012..We aimed to examine the uptake of key mental health service recommendations over time and to investigate the association between their implementation and suicide rates... - Suicide prevention in primary care: General practitioners' views on service availabilityPooja Saini
National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness, Centre for Suicide Prevention, Jean McFarlane Building, University of Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
BMC Res Notes 3:246. 2010..We carried out a questionnaire and interview study in the North West of England. We collected data on GPs views of suicide prevention generally as well as local mental health service provision... - Electroconvulsive therapy and suicide among the mentally ill in England: a national clinical surveyIsabelle M Hunt
School of Community Based Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Psychiatry Res 187:145-9. 2011..Services appear to acknowledge the high risk of suicide in those receiving ECT. Improvements in care of these severely ill patients may include careful discharge planning and improved observation of in-patients in receipt of ECT... - The incidence and associated risk factors for sudden unexplained death in psychiatric in-patients in England and WalesKirsten Windfuhr
National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness, Centre for Suicide Prevention, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
J Psychopharmacol 25:1533-42. 2011..The contribution of restraint or seclusion to SUD in individual cases is unclear. A uniform definition of SUD may help to identify contributing factors... - Primary care contact prior to suicide in individuals with mental illnessAnna Pearson
University of Manchester, Centre for Suicide Prevention, Manchester
Br J Gen Pract 59:825-32. 2009..Previous studies have reported differing rates of consultation with GPs prior to suicide. Patients with a psychiatric history have higher rates of consultation and consult closer to the time of their death... - Suicide in recently released prisoners: a population-based cohort studyDaniel Pratt
Centre for Suicide Prevention, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
Lancet 368:119-23. 2006..A shared responsibility lies with the prison, probation, health, and social services to develop more collaborative practices in providing services for this high-risk group... - Suicides in ethnic minorities within 12 months of contact with mental health services. National clinical surveyIsabelle M Hunt
National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness, Centre for Suicide Prevention, Manchester, UK
Br J Psychiatry 183:155-60. 2003..CONCLUSIONS: In order to reduce the number of suicides by ethnic minority patients, services should address the complex health and social needs of people with severe mental illness... - Predicting community violence from patients discharged from acute mental health units in EnglandMichael Doyle
Community Based Medicine, Adult Forensic Mental Health Services, Greater Manchester West NHS Mental Health Foundation Trust, University of Manchester, Room 2 311 2nd Floor, Jean McFarlane Building, University Place, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 47:627-37. 2012..To investigate the validity of risk factors and established risk measures in predicting community violence in an acute mental health sample up to 20 weeks post-discharge... - Suicide in recently admitted psychiatric in-patients: a case-control studyIsabelle M Hunt
National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness, Centre for Mental Health and Risk, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
J Affect Disord 144:123-8. 2013..Little is known on the factors associated with suicide during this critical time. We aimed to identify risk factors for suicide among in-patients within the first week of admission... - Ligature points and ligature types used by psychiatric inpatients who die by hanging: a national studyIsabelle M Hunt
National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness, Centre for Mental Health and Risk, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Crisis 33:87-94. 2012..Approximately three-quarters of patients who die by suicide on psychiatric wards do so by hanging/strangulation. Increased awareness of the methods used by these patients may benefit prevention strategies in mental health services... - National study of suicide in all people with a criminal justice historyRoger T Webb
Centre for Suicide Prevention, University of Manchester, Manchester, England
Arch Gen Psychiatry 68:591-9. 2011..Previous research has focused on suicide among male prisoners and ex-prisoners, but little is known about risk in the wider offender population... - Combined influence of serious mental illness and criminal offending on suicide risk in younger adultsRoger T Webb
Centre for Suicide Prevention, Centre for Mental Health and Risk, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 48:49-57. 2013..We conducted a national epidemiological study to determine how mental illness and criminal offending combine to influence suicide risk in younger adults... - Mental illness, gender and homicide: a population-based descriptive studySandra Flynn
Centre for Suicide Prevention, Community Based Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Psychiatry Res 185:368-75. 2011..Our findings suggest that all perpetrators of homicide should have a psychiatric assessment pre-trial. Psychiatrists need to rate risk objectively in a gender blind way when providing psychiatric reports to be used as evidence in court... - Level of mental health intervention and clinical need among inmates with mental illness in five English jailsLamiece Hassan
Centre for Mental Health and Risk, University of Manchester, Jean McFarlane Bldg, Oxford Rd, M13 9PL, Manchester, Lancashire M13 9PL, United Kingdom
Psychiatr Serv 63:1218-24. 2012..This study examined associations between clinical, demographic, and criminological characteristics of inmates with mental illness and level of mental health intervention received during early custody... - Prison staff and women prisoner's views on self-harm; their implications for service delivery and development: A qualitative studyCassandra Kenning
Centre for Women s Mental Health Research, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Crim Behav Ment Health 20:274-84. 2010..Rates of self-harm are high among women in prison in the UK. This is the first study to compare the views and attitudes of prison staff and women prisoners and to look at the effects of these attitudes on prisoner/staff relationships... - Prospective cohort study of mental health during imprisonmentLamiece Hassan
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust and The University of Manchester, Room 2 314, Jean McFarlane Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
Br J Psychiatry 198:37-42. 2011..Mental illness is common among prisoners, but little evidence exists regarding changes in symptoms in custody over time... - Prisoners holding their own medications during imprisonment in England and Wales: a survey and qualitative exploration of staff and prisoners' viewsLamiece Hassan
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust, Preston, UK
Crim Behav Ment Health 22:29-40. 2012..Prisons in England and Wales, however, have now been encouraged to allow prisoners to hold and manage their own medication themselves as 'in-possession' medication, in line with community practices... - Homicide due to mental disorder in England and Wales over 50 yearsMatthew Large
Northern Sydney Central Coast Area Health Service, Macquarie Hospital, North Ryde, Australia
Br J Psychiatry 193:130-3. 2008..It has been stated that rates of homicide due to mental disorder are constant over time... - Prison mental health inreach servicesJulie Steel
Br J Psychiatry 190:373-4. 2007..This paper summarises the policy content and what has been achieved thus far, and poses challenges that these teams face if they are to become a clear and effective component in the overall system of forensic mental healthcare... - Ethnic differences among patients in high-security psychiatric hospitals in EnglandMorven Leese
Section of Community Psychiatry (PRiSM, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK
Br J Psychiatry 188:380-5. 2006..40,95% CI 0.06-0.73). CONCLUSIONS: Compared with the proportion of Black patients in the general population in their region of origin, a much higher proportion of Black patients were admitted to HSPHs, and fewer of their needs were met... - Sections 37/41 Mental Health Act 1983: a study of judges' practice and assessment of risk to the publicInti Qurashi
Ashworth Hospital, Parkbourn, Maghull, Liverpool L31 1HW
Med Sci Law 48:57-63. 2008..In addition to the primary intention to protect the public nearly half the sample stated that an additional intention was to ensure compliance with both after-care services and medication... - Redeveloping secure psychiatric services for womenStuart D M Thomas
Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, UK
Med Sci Law 45:331-9. 2005..The special needs of these women should be considered a priority when developing treatment and care packages...