The Medicalization of Criminal behavior among Mental Patients
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2545124 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary Evans Melick (corresponding author), Henry J Steadman, Joseph J Cocozza |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 228 |
| Publication date | 1979-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Health and Social Behavior (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1465 • E-ISSN: 2150-6000 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2136448 |
| PMID | 479534 |
| OpenAlex | W2008738260 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 5 |
The concept of medicalization suggests that a wider range of behaviors is becoming defined as legitimate for medical intervention. Through a comparison of the arrest rates of mental patients released during 1968 and 1975 with the general population rates, the relevance of this process to criminal behavior is examined. In both years the arrest rates for the patient groups exceeded those of the general population, these higher rates being explained by the increasing number of patients with prior police records. Patients without prior arrests had lower arrest rates after release than the general population for all crime categories except property crimes. Comparison of our data with data gathered on patients released in 1946-47 shows that over a 30-year period the proportion of males admitted to psychiatric facilities with police records has steadily and consistently increased. These findings are discussed within the framework of the increasing medicalization of society, with particular concern for adapting this concept to changes resulting from administrative pressures where corresponding changes in ideology are absent
Criminology · Medicalization · Political science · Population · Psychiatry · Relevance (law) · Sociology · Demography · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Law · Medicine · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
The Social Context of Mental Illness and Violence
Labeling and Stigma
Le système policier et les services de santé mentale
La judiciarisation des patients psychiatriques
Gender and Mental Health
Stereotypes of mental illness
Crime and Mental Disorder
Mental Illness and Criminal Justice Processing
The urban services paradox
Psychiatric Versus Social Factors
Care and Treatment of the Mentally Ill in the United States
Psychiatric Hospital Capacity, Homelessness, and Crime and Arrest Rates
The Impact of State Mental Hospital Deinstitutionalization on Commitments for Incompetency to Stand Trial
Self Reports of Violence
Statutory change and 'street-level' implementation of psychiatric commitment
Modeling the Relationships Between Macro Forms of Social Control
Modeling the Relationship between the Criminal Justice and Mental Health Systems
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,36 |
| Citation span | 1979 - 2013 (35) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |