Responses to Violence in a Psychiatric Setting
- 1 September 1988
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Vol. 14 (3) , 448-458
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167288143003
Abstract
With an archival method, we studied 453 incidents of violence at a Connecticut state psychiatric hospital for adolescents. Records revealed no difference in the number of violent acts by White and non-White patients. However, the White hospital staff physically restrained non-White patients nearly four times as often as they restrained Whites. Interracial contact reduced this differential imposition of restraints. These findings complement experimental evidence and illustrate contemporary race relations.Keywords
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