RECONVICTION AND MENTAL ILLNESS
Jamieson and Taylor (2004 in Howitt 2009: 380) did a 12 year follow up study on
patients discharged from a specialist hospital
¼ of offenders were reconvicted of serious offences (86% of which were in the
community at the time of reconviction)
Those with a psychopathic disorder were 7 times more likely to commit a
serious offence whilst on discharge
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, MI & CRIME: CONFOUNDING FACTORS
Social Class
As a result of mental illness
As a cause of the mental illness
Violence
As a consequence of the mental illness
As a cause of the mental illness
At acute stages of the illness
Stigmatisation / Discrimination
Clinical Sample
Drug Use –Lecture 3
Some drug taking can lead to violence
Co-morbidity between major psychiatric disorders and alcohol and drug abuse
THE MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1983 (AMENDED 2007) (MHN, 2016)
Used more than 58,000 times to detain people in 2014/15, representing the
highest ever year-on- year increase ever (approximately 10%).
51% of mental health inpatients were subject to the Act.
an increase of 8,982 (18%) since monitoring began in 2009
Of these, 19,656 were detained in hospital and 5,461 were being treated
under community treatment orders (CTOs)
Overrepresentation of some BME groups in the detained population has been
widely reported for many years (almost 3 times greater) than those of white
patients.
compulsory admission rates of black people tend to be highest in areas with higher levels of
deprivation and areas where there is a higher proportion of non-white residents
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Jamieson and Taylor (2004 in Howitt 2009: 380) did a 12 year follow up study on
patients discharged from a specialist hospital
¼ of offenders were reconvicted of serious offences (86% of which were in the
community at the time of reconviction)
Those with a psychopathic disorder were 7 times more likely to commit a
serious offence whilst on discharge
13
148
, MI & CRIME: CONFOUNDING FACTORS
Social Class
As a result of mental illness
As a cause of the mental illness
Violence
As a consequence of the mental illness
As a cause of the mental illness
At acute stages of the illness
Stigmatisation / Discrimination
Clinical Sample
Drug Use –Lecture 3
Some drug taking can lead to violence
Co-morbidity between major psychiatric disorders and alcohol and drug abuse
THE MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1983 (AMENDED 2007) (MHN, 2016)
Used more than 58,000 times to detain people in 2014/15, representing the
highest ever year-on- year increase ever (approximately 10%).
51% of mental health inpatients were subject to the Act.
an increase of 8,982 (18%) since monitoring began in 2009
Of these, 19,656 were detained in hospital and 5,461 were being treated
under community treatment orders (CTOs)
Overrepresentation of some BME groups in the detained population has been
widely reported for many years (almost 3 times greater) than those of white
patients.
compulsory admission rates of black people tend to be highest in areas with higher levels of
deprivation and areas where there is a higher proportion of non-white residents
15
169
