Mental health and criminality: A Sri Lankan perspective

摘要

Recent mass killings in the United States by a perpetrator apparently having a mental disorder have led to questions about the efficiency of mental health services in that country. Sri Lanka has yet to encounter such mental health related catastrophes. However a less than comprehensive provision of specialised services in Child Psychiatry and Forensic Psychiatry, a lack of a formal community mental health care network and the ready availability of weapons which are a residue of years of armed conflict suggests that its potential for such an event remains high. Sri Lanka Journal of Psychiatry Vol 3(2) December 2012 Page 1-2 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/sljpsyc.v3i2.5129