Crime and Mental Disorder

The analytic framework of epidemiology can be used to study the relation between crime and mental disorder, distinguishing between the true rates of crime and mental disorder, that is, the rates at which crime and mental disorder actually occur, and their treated rates, that is, the rates at which the criminal justice and mental health systems respond to them. The conclusion that emerges is that rates of true and treated criminal behavior vary independently of rates of true and treated mental disorder when appropriate controls are made for such demographic factors as age, gender, and social class and for such life history factors as prior experience in the mental health and criminal justice systems. When these controls are not applied, rates of true and treated mental disorder are higher among criminals than among the general population, and rates of true and treated crime are higher among the mentally disordered than among the general population. When these controls are applied, the observed relations tend to dissipate

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• Schizophrenia and Violence

  Open Access•Seena Fazel, Gautam Gulati et al.•PLoS Medicine•2009

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• From risky individuals to risky systems

  Open Access•Anne G Crocker, Marichelle Leclair•Frontiers in Psychiatry•2025

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• The theory and practice of supermax prisons

  Open Access•Daniel P Mears, Michael D Reisig•Punishment & Society•2005

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• Citizen Gun Ownership and Criminal Deterrence

  Open Access•Gary S Green•Criminology•1987

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• The Violent and Illegal Behavior of Mental Patients Reconsidered

  Bruce G Link, Howard Andrews et al.•American Sociological Review•1992

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• Outpatient commitment

  Virginia Aldigé Hiday•Psychology Public Policy and Law•2003

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• Statutory change and 'street-level' implementation of psychiatric commitment

  Open Access•Jonathan I Marx, Jonathan Marx et al.•Social Science & Medicine•1988

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• Adjusting to Prison Life

  Kenneth Adams•Crime and Justice•1992

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• The Immigration-Crime Nexus

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• Social status and psychological disorder

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• Social class and mental illness

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• The Criminally Insane

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• Delinquency in a Birth Cohort

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• Community Life for the Mentally Ill

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• Criminal behavior of discharged mental patients

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• The Effects of the Criminal Justice System on the Control of Crime

  Open Access•Shlomo Shinnar, Reuel Shinnar•Law & Society Review•1975

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• Bargain Justice in an Unjust World

  Open Access•Charlotte Haney, Craig Haney et al.•Law & Society Review•1979

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• A New Trade in Lunacy

  Open Access•Andrew Scull•American Behavioral Scientist•1981

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• Critically Reassessing the Accuracy of Public Perceptions of the Dangerousness of the Mentally Ill

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• The Medicalization of Criminal behavior among Mental Patients

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