Psychiatric disorder in London's life-sentenced offenders

Taylor, Pamela Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3998-6095 1986. Psychiatric disorder in London's life-sentenced offenders. British Journal of Criminology 26 (1) , pp. 63-78.

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Abstract

A review of life-sentenced men and women, supervised by probation officers in the Inner London Probation Service, was carried out by questionnaire to the supervising officers. There appeared to be a high rate of psychiatric disorder, whether the lifers were in prison or in the community. Overall two-thirds of the lifers had a psychiatric diagnosis. Nearly 10 per cent, of them had schizophrenia, a slightly higher proportion had a depressive illness and one-third had received a definite diagnosis of personality disorder. In most of the latter cases personality disorder was not the sole diagnosis. On a number of superficial social measures the released lifers had adjusted well. Nearly a third, however, had been recalled at some stage and there was a suggestion that psychiatric disorder may have been an important factor in the decision to recall.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG) Medicine
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	0007-0955
Last Modified:	31 Oct 2022 10:36
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/85443

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