Risk Assessment in Offenders With Mental Disorders. Relative Efficacy of Personal Demographic, Criminal History, and Clinical Variables

Autor/inn/en	Phillips, Helen K.; Gray, Nicola S.; MacCulloch, Sophie I.; Taylor, John; Moore, Simon C.; Huckle, Phil; MacCulloch, Malcolm J.
Titel	Risk Assessment in Offenders With Mental Disorders. Relative Efficacy of Personal Demographic, Criminal History, and Clinical Variables
Quelle	In: Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 20 (2005) 7, S.833-847 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0886-2605
DOI	10.1177/0886260504272898
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Clinical Diagnosis; Mental Disorders; Crime; Criminals; Risk; Age; Recidivism; Prediction + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Mental illness; Geisteskrankheit; Crimes; Delict; Delicts; Delikt; Straftäter; Risiko; Alter; Lebensalter; Rückfall; Vorhersage
Abstract	Following the meta-analysis by Bonta, Law, and Hanson, (1998) this study examined the ability of personal demographic, criminal history, and clinical variables to predict reoffending in offenders in the United Kingdom who had mental disorders. The efficacy of each variable in predicting rate of general reoffending and violent reoffending was investigated. Age on admission, number of days hospitalized, and number of previous offenses were the most effective variables in predicting re-offending, with number of previous offenses being the strongest predictor. Clinical diagnosis was not predictive of reoffending when the variance attributable to these other predictors was controlled for. None of the variables were able to discriminate between general offenders and violent offenders indicating that the same variables predict both types of reoffending. The results showed that reconviction in offenders with mental disorders can be predicted using the same criminogenic variables that are predictive in offenders without mental disorders. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10