Why some experts say China urgently needs a crisis system to stop the killing of ‘lone wolves’

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China needs one crisis intervention system to identify high-risk individuals to help prevent the kind of “lone wolf” attacks that have killed more than 40 people this month, according to two legal experts.
“We have to put more effort into it mental health crisis intervention and conflict resolution, and urgently establish a systematic prevention mechanism,” the experts said in an article published on Chinese news site Guancha.cn on Monday.

The authors – Gao Yandong, vice dean of the Institute of Digital Rule of Law at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, and research assistant Liu Yicen – cited two deadly attacks this month as examples of how China’s public security system has “clear legal bases and operational standards” for “identifying high-risk individuals”.

The first was a vehicle ramming in the southern city of Zhuhai that killed 35 people, and the second was a stiches eight people were killed in the eastern province of Jiangsu.

Authorities said the suspect in the Zhuhai attack was angry about a divorce judgment, while the 21-year-old suspect in the Jiangsu stabbing was a university student who was denied his graduation certificate after failing exams and was also angry about the low wages he received as a factory trainee.

In both cases, the suspects should have received psychological help, Gao and Liu said in the article.

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