How Crime Can Damage Your Health – And What You Can Do About It

It’s a given that crime can adversely affect your health. Violent crimes such as assaults can obviously directly affect an individual’s physical health – but what about the ‘invisible,’ mental effects of crime?

Crime and the subsequent fear of it can have stark consequences for both mental health and personal and social well-being, and the damage done can be far more catastrophic than one might think. The Chair of Surgery at Cardiff University, Professor Shepherd, has spent years researching the effects of crime on people he has treated in hospital.

“Having treated people injured by violence for many years, I’m convinced …read more