The Medicalization of Criminal behavior among Mental Patients

Melick, Mary Evans; Steadman, Henry J.; Cocozza, Joseph J.

doi:10.2307/2136448

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“…The best predictor of the frequency of these aggressive behaviors was the respondent's age. The findings are consistent with the findings from the arrest rate studies (Melick et al, 1979;Ribner and Steadman, 1981), which found that age was the best predictor of violent arrest in all groups, along with prior arrest record. Race, on the other hand, had very little effect on any of the aggression measures.…”

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Self Reports of Violence

Steadman

Felson

1984

Criminology

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Self‐report data are used to compare the relative incidence of aggression and violence among ex‐mental patients, ex‐offenders, and the general population and to examine the effect of socio‐demographic variables on the frequency of these behaviors. Frequency was measured by reported frequencies of aggressive behaviors during the preceding year, by whether respondents could recall serious disputes, and by the recency of the disputes they recalled. In support of studies that have relied on official arrest statistics, the evidence suggests that ex‐offenders engage in violence with greater frequency than the other two groups and that they have a greater tendency to physically attack and injure their antagonists when involved in violent disputes. Ex‐mental patients appear to use weapons more frequently than the general population, but they are no more likely to injure antagonists. In contrast to labeling theory, police were no more likely to become involved or to make an arrest in incidents involving ex‐patients or ex‐offenders.

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Self Reports of Violence

Steadman

Felson

1984

Criminology

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“…Life course research has deepened our understanding of the importance of interacting events and factors in the emergence of offending behaviour. Such factors include childhood experiences and abuse (Monahan et al, 2001), parenting practices (Monahan et al, 2001;Schroeder, Giordano, & Cernkovich, 2010), age and employment (Uggen, 2000), marriage and spousal choice (van Schellen, Apel, & Nieuwbeerta, 2012), mental disorder and non-compliance with medication regimes (McFarland, Faulkner, Bloom, Hallaux & Bray, 1989;Swartz et al, 1998), mental disorder and homelessness (Martell, 1991), mental disorder and prior arrests (Melick, Steadman, & Cocozza, 1979;Shore et al, 1989), and neighbourhood context (Monahan et al, 2001).…”

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The multifinality of vulnerability indicators in lone-actor terrorism

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Marchment

Gill

2018

Psychology, Crime & Law

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To move beyond current aggregate and static conclusions regarding radicalisation and subsequent terrorist behaviour, empirical research should look to criminological models which are influenced by the life course perspective.Current UK government policy designed to prevent radicalisation and terrorist engagement look to outputs from criminological perspectives to inform policy and practice. However, the guidance suffers from a lack of specificity as to the major concept of 'vulnerability to radicalisation', and what this incorporates. This investigation uses sequential analyses to add to our understanding of 'vulnerability' in the specific context of lone-actor terrorism. The statistical method bridges the gap between qualitative and quantitative approaches and provides a series of empirical outputs which visualise typical lone-actor terrorist trajectories through the discrete stages of radicalisation, attack planning and attack commission.

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“…Bien que l'arrestation soit l'une des options les moins souvent retenues, des études montrent que ces personnes sont plus souvent arrê-tées que les autres suspects non perçus comme ayant des troubles mentaux (Durbin et al, 1977;Melick et al, 1979;Rappeport et al, 1966 ;Schuerman et al, 1984). Dans l'étude de Teplin (1984a), ces différences sont très marquées.…”

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Le système policier et les services de santé mentale

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2006

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L'accès à des services de santé mentale pour des personnes référées par la police représente un enjeu important pour éviter la criminalisation d'infractions mineures dont ces personnes pourraient être accusées. La police joue un rôle essentiel dans le choix de la réponse qui sera donnée à ces situations. Quand des mesures informelles ne peuvent être retenues ou que les services en santé ne sont pas accessibles ou que la personne les refuse, la criminalisation apparaît souvent comme la seule façon de régler le problème et, potentiellement, d'obtenir des soins pour cette personne. Cet article examine les travaux ayant porté sur cette question afin de tracer un canevas à partir duquel peut se faire une lecture des transformations récentes qui traversent le secteur de la santé mentale.Access to mental health services for people referred by the police represent an important stake to prevent the criminalization of minor infractions. The police play an essential role in the choice of the answer given to these situations. When informal measures cannot be retained or when health services are not accessible or when a person refuses, criminalization often appears as the only way to solve the problem and potentially, obtain care for the person. This article examines research on this issue in order to trace a canvas from which recent transformation in the mental health sector can be read.El acceso a los servicios de salud mental para las personas que son referida por Ia policfa, représenta un desafio importante par evitar la cri-minalizaciôn de infracciones menores de las que estas personas pueden ser acusadas. La policia juega un papel esencial en la election de la res-puesta que se le darâ a estas situaciones. Cuando las medidas informâtes no pueden ser retenidas, o que los servicios de salud mental no son aces-sibles, o que la persona los rechaza, frecuentemente la criminalizacion aparece como la ûnica manera de arreglar el problema, y potencial-mente, obtener los cuidados par esta persona. Este artïculo examina los trabajos que han tratado de esta cuestiôn, con el fin de trazar un bos-quejo a partir del cual puede hacerse une lectura de las recientes trans-formaciones que atraviesa el sector de la salud mental

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The Medicalization of Criminal behavior among Mental Patients

Cited by 87 publications

References 15 publications

Self Reports of Violence

Self Reports of Violence

The multifinality of vulnerability indicators in lone-actor terrorism

Le système policier et les services de santé mentale

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