Crime and mental disorder: a literature review

Correlates of Crime and Violence among Persons with Mental Disorder: An Evidence- Based Review

The issue of crime and violence among persons with mental disorder is a subject of longstanding clinical and policy importance. Over the past 15 years, much research has been conducted on the relationship betweenmental disorder and crime and violence. This article is a review of the research literature on the correlates of crime and violence among persons with mental disorder. To facilitate thi...

Epidemiology and Mental Disorder: a Review.

Though it is now fashionable to speak of the epidemiology of mental illness, this conjunction of terms appeared in the literature only rarely before 1949, when it was chosen as the title of a conference organized by the Milbank Memorial Fund to explore common ground between psychiatrists and public health workers (Milbank Memorial Fund, 1950). Since then a spate of publications, especially in N...

Crime and Mental Subnormality

Crime and Mental Wellbeing

Crime and Mental Wellbeing We provide empirical evidence of crime’s impact on the mental wellbeing of both victims and non-victims. We differentiate between the direct impact to victims and the indirect impact to society due to the fear of crime. The results show a decrease in mental wellbeing after violent crime victimization and that the violent crime rate has a negative impact on mental well...

Mental Abnormality and Crime

the wrongdoer so as to deter him from repeating the offence or others from imitating him. Nowadays a more subjective attitude is being taken so that the welfare and reform of the criminal are considered. This leads to the conception of partial responsibility and the infliction of the indeterminate curative sentence. The first essay is by Brig. Rees who stresses the importance of diagnosis befor...