Socially Disruptive Behavior of Ex-Mental Patients

Giovannoni, Jeanne M.; Gurel, Lee

doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1967.01730260018003

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“…In the 1960's and 1970's many follow-up studies were conducted in the U.S. in which the criminal activity of persons who had been discharged from psychiatric wards was compared to that of persons living in the communities surrounding the hospitals (Durbin, Pasewark, & Albers, 1977;Giovanni & Gurel, 1967;Rappeport & Lassen, 1965;Sosowsky, 1974;Steadman, Cocozza & Melick, 1978;Zitrin, Hardesty, Burdock, & Drossman, 1976). All of these investigations documented higher rates of criminality among the former patients than among the non-disordered population in the community where the patients lived.…”

Section: Studies Of Psychiatric Patients Discharged To the Communitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychopathy: Theory, Research and Implications for Society

Cooke¹,

Forth²,

Hare³

1998

137

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Section: Studies Of Psychiatric Patients Discharged To the Communitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychopathy: Theory, Research and Implications for Society

Cooke¹,

Forth²,

Hare³

1998

137

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“…Later studies showed that the rates for violent crimes among mental hospital patients appear higher (e.g. Rappeport & Lasson, 1965;Giovannoni & Gurel, 1967;Zitren et al, 1976;Grunberg et al, 1977Grunberg et al, , 1978. Steadman et al (1978), however, suggested that the real increase in arrest rates among mental patients lies within a recidivist group .…”

Section: Psychosis and Violencementioning

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Gunn¹

1996

Criminal Behav. Ment. Health

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“…Early studies suggested levels of subsequent conviction lower or similar to that of the general population (Ashley, 1922;Pollock, 1938;Cohen and Freeman, 1945;Rappeport and Lassen, 1965). More recent studies raised the spectre of significantly higher levels of offending in the expatient group (Giovannoni and Gurel, 1967 The more recent publications suggesting discharged mental patients may be more dangerous than the average citizen have been severely criticised for methodological flaws, including a failure to control, for example, the relevant demographic variables, sample sizes and previous arrest records (Cohen, 1980). Monahan (1981) concluded: 'The higher rate of .violent crime committed by released mental patients can be accounted for entirely by those patients with a record, particularly an extensive record, of c r i m i n a l activity t h a t p r e d a t e d their hospitalisation'.…”

Section: Violence and Offending Amongst The Mentally Abnormalmentioning

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Mental Disorder and Dangerousness

Mullen

1984

Aust N Z J Psychiatry

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Psychiatrists are called upon to make judgements on the future dangerousness of mentally disordered subjects in civil commitment procedures, in the criminal courts, and during the decision process on the release of offenders on indeterminate sentences or committals. The ability of psychiatrists to make these judgements is increasingly under challenge. The difficulties of making useful predictions when the base rate for the event to be predicted is low, is now well recognised. Less obvious are the problems attendant upon making socially useful predictions on psychiatric grounds in populations with a high base rate for future offending. The evidence pertaining to the level of violence amongst the mentally disordered is reviewed. The lesson to be drawn from the empirical evidence is that mental abnormality of and in itself contributes little to the prediction of the predisposition to act violently. The question remains as to whether there are definable groups or classes within the generality of mentally abnormal individuals for whom there is an increased risk of future violence. It would be compatible with both the research studies and common clinical impression if the mentally abnormal contained subgroups with unusually violent predispositions balanced by larger groups with less than average propensities to aggression. The literature is largely inadequate to delineate such high risk groups with the degree of certainty ideally needed to instruct clinical decisions, but does suggest that such groups exist and are capable of further empirical definition.

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Socially Disruptive Behavior of Ex-Mental Patients

Cited by 83 publications

References 12 publications

Psychopathy: Theory, Research and Implications for Society

Psychopathy: Theory, Research and Implications for Society

Let's get serious about dangerousness

Mental Disorder and Dangerousness

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