Crime and Mental Disorder

An Epidemiological Approach

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11348981
AutoresJl Monahan (0000-0003-4431-3028, autor de correspondencia), John Monahan, Henry J Steadman
Año1983
Volumen4
Páginas145-189
Fecha de publicación1983-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCrime and Justice (BOOK_SERIES)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0192-3234 • E-ISSN: 2153-0416
EditorialUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/449088
OpenAlexW1984471051
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas13

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

Criminal justice · Criminology · Economic Justice · Environmental health · Mental health · Political science · Population · Prevalence of mental disorders · Psychiatry · Clinical Psychology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Medicine · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending · Epidemiology