Involuntary Psychiatric Commitments Among Non-Western Immigrants During the Muhammad Cartoon Controversy in Denmark.

ABSTRACT: Persons deemed a danger to themselves, others, or gravely disabled may receive involuntary psychiatric commitment if family, other residents, law enforcement, or clinicians initiate this process. On September 30, 2005, a Danish newspaper published cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. This publication led to the worst foreign policy crisis in Denmark since World War II. Whereas protests within Denmark against the cartoon remained peaceful, this cartoon controversy-including the attacks on four Danish embassies outside of Denmark-may have reduced societal tolerance for threatening or deviant behavior among non-Western immigrants. We applied Box-Jenkins interrupted time-series methods to test whether this cartoon controversy coincided with greater than expected counts of new involuntary p

SUBMITTER: Bruckner TA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12583290 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature