Homeless mentally disordered offenders and violent crimes: Preliminary research findings.

1991 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 333-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel A. Martell
Keyword(s):  
Mentally Disordered Offenders ◽  
Violent Crimes ◽  
Mentally Disordered ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Preliminary Research

scholarly journals Kriminalitetsprofiler i en dansk retspsykiatrisk population – udfordringer for psykiatriens kriminalitetsforebyggende opgave?

2017 ◽  
Vol 103 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Diverse: Stølan, Raben, Sørensen, Brandt-Christensen, Møllerhøj
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Community Treatment ◽  
Treatment Team ◽  
Mentally Disordered Offenders ◽  
Violent Crimes ◽  
Assertive Community Treatment Team ◽  
Mentally Disordered ◽  
Huge Variety ◽  
Hospital Psychiatry

English title: Typologies of crime committed by mentally disordered offenders: A challenge to the statutory task in hospital psychiatry of preventing recidivism to criminal actsThe aim of the study is to identify and describe a number of characteristics among a selected sample of mentally disordered offenders referred to a specialized forensic assertive community treatment team in Copenhagen (n=181). Looking at a number of variables, the study identifies a heavily burdened patient population in terms of social marginalization, serious mental illness, and criminal acts. Having identified a huge variety and number of typologies of criminal acts, we argue that the task of preventing recidivism to new crime not clear among mental health professionals. Furthermore, it proves difficult to prevent crime when the typologies of crime are diverse and widespread. It is one thing is to prevent violent crimes closely related to an actual psychotic mental state and quite another to prevent drug crimes or property crimes not so obviously related to a mental disorder. The article concludes that we need to increase our knowledge and awareness of risk and protective factors specifically related to criminal recidivism and improve cooperation between hospital psychiatry, social services and probation services.

scholarly journals The Reconvictions of Mentally Disordered Offenders - How, When, and Where?

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ebba Noland ◽  
Mattias Strandh ◽  
Fia Klötz Logan
Keyword(s):  
Violent Crime ◽  
Psychiatric Care ◽  
Criminal Court ◽  
Public Place ◽  
Mentally Disordered Offenders ◽  
Violent Crimes ◽  
Mentally Disordered ◽  
Forensic Psychiatric ◽  
Descriptive Statistical Analysis

Abstract Background Little is known about the recidivism of mentally disordered offenders after discharge from forensic psychiatric services. This is problematic because such knowledge could (i) help professionals who come into contact with this group to better plan interventions to prevent recidivism and (ii) clarify the effectiveness of forensic psychiatric care. The aim of this study was to investigate the new crimes of mentally disordered offenders who had been reconvicted after discharge from forensic psychiatric care. Methods Included in this study were all individuals who had been discharged from forensic psychiatric care in Sweden during 2009-2018, were included in the Swedish National Forensic Psychiatric Register, and had been reconvicted in a criminal court within the follow-up period of 2009-2018 (n=157). Retrospective registry data along with coded data from criminal judgments (n=210) were used to create a database. Descriptive statistical analysis was performed. Results 75% of included individuals were reconvicted for at least one violent crime, but only 9 individuals were reconvicted for a serious violent crime, which can be compared to the 44 individuals with serious violent index crimes. The most common crime was “Other violent”. The most common sentence was probation. The offender’s most common relationship to the victim was having no known relationship, followed by the victim being a person of authority. The most common circumstance of the crime leading to the reconviction was that it occurred without apparent provocation; other common circumstances were related to the exercise of public authority. The most common crime scene was a public place. Conclusions Even though the reconvictions of this group included many violent crimes, there were very few serious violent crimes. The finding that the victims of the crimes of mentally disordered offenders are most commonly either unknown to the perpetrator or persons of authority, and that the crimes are often perpetrated without apparent provocation or reason, is important information for all professionals who come into contact with this group and should be taken into consideration in order to assess risk more accurately.

Mentally disordered offenders: A national survey of patients and facilities.

1982 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry J. Steadman ◽  
John Monahan ◽  
Eliot Hartstone ◽  
Sharon Kantorowski Davis ◽  
Pamela Clark Robbins
Keyword(s):  
National Survey ◽  
Mentally Disordered Offenders ◽  
Mentally Disordered

The Antisocial Personality Questionnaire: An Inventory for Assessing Personality Deviation in Offender Populations1 * An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Fifth European Conference on Law and Psychology, Budapest, Hungary, August 1995.

1999 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Blackburn ◽  
Diane Fawcett
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Social Withdrawal ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Criminal Career ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Antisocial Personality ◽  
Mentally Disordered Offenders ◽  
Mentally Disordered

Summary: The development is described of the Antisocial Personality Questionnaire (APQ), a short multitrait, self-report inventory that measures intrapersonal and interpersonal dispositions of relevance to antisocial populations. Scales were generated through factor analysis of an item pool adapted from the MMPI, Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory, and a self-report scale of Psychopathy, using samples of male mentally disordered offenders (N = 499) and male volunteer nonoffenders (N = 238). Eight factors extracted were identified as Self-Control, Self-Esteem, Avoidance, Paranoid Suspicion, Resentment, Aggression, Deviance, and Extraversion. Short scales constructed to measure these have satisfactory reliability (α), and correlations with measures of personality disorder, observer ratings of interpersonal style, and criminal career data support their construct validity. Scale intercorrelations yield two higher-order dimensions of hostile impulsivity and social withdrawal that reflect orientations towards others and the self, respectively. The APQ provides comprehensive coverage of the deviant traits implicated in personality disorder and antisocial behavior, and appears to tap three of the Big Five personality dimensions (Neuroticism, Extraversion and Agreeableness). The questionnaire has satisfactory psychometric properties and can aid research and intervention with offenders.

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