@article{ref1,
title="Mental illness and violence among people experiencing homelessness: an evidence-based review",
journal="Missouri medicine",
year="2024",
author="Xu, Kevin Y. and Gold, Jessica A. and Szlyk, Hannah S. and Rolin, Stephanie A. and Shields, Morgan C.",
volume="121",
number="1",
pages="14-20",
abstract="The US media is saturated with coverage of perceived threats to public safety by people experiencing homelessness (PEH) with purported &quot;mental illness.&quot; In a prescient 2017 article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), then-Los Angeles health commissioner, Mitchell Katz, noted a sense of public &quot;frustration with some of the behaviors of some homeless people,&quot; ranging from &quot;sidewalks being blocked by shopping carts, aggressive panhandling, and urination and defecation in public.&quot;1 Such sentiments have intensified in recent years, as the number of PEH (Table 1) has surged, with frustration increasingly turning into fear. With regards to media coverage, a series of articles suggested that nearly half of commercial sidewalks in San Francisco were &quot;covered in feces,&quot; leading to widespread public outrage.2 Meanwhile, a content analysis of 6,400 tweets regarding PEH collected over three months showed widespread generalizations that PEH posed a high risk of violence and that homelessness was caused by untreated mental illness<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0026-6620",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}