Assessments of the dangerousness of mental patients held in maximum security.
Assessments of the dangerousness of mental patients held in maximum security.
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对精神病人危险性的评估处于最高安全状态。
DOI：
10.1016/0160-2527(79)90014-1
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发表时间：
1979
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
V. Quinsey
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作者：
V. Quinsey
在识别可能对他人实施严重侵略性犯罪的男性方面存在的问题引发了最近的大量评论（Gulevich & Boume, 1970; Megargee, 1976; Mesnikoff & Lauterback, 1975; Monahan, 1975; Quinsey; 1977a, 1977b; Quinsey, Ambtman, & Pruesse, 1977; Shah, 1978; Steadman, 1976; Steadman & Cocozza, 1974; Wenk, Robinson, & Smith, 1972）。评论的数量既证明了这个未解决问题的重要性，也证明了没有必要再对关于危险预测的文献进行审查。本论文的目的不是对文献进行调查，而是描述自1971年以来在安大略省Penetanguishene心理健康中心的“橡树岭”部门进行的一项关于危险性的研究计划的进展情况。本文将从临床、人口学、行为学、心理测量学和心理生理学的角度，依次回顾一系列涉及最高安全级别精神病患者危险性评估的实证研究。希望对一系列相互关联的研究项目的这一描述将表明在哪些方面取得了进展，哪些方面没有取得进展，并以此为今后的研究指明方向。由于橡树岭是一所精神病院，许多研究都是基于这样的假设（Quinsey, 1977a），即橡树岭病人的精神问题与他们的精神疾病有关。暴力或反社会行为。同样的，因为某些智力低下和/或精神病患者经常在机构内具有攻击性，我们的许多研究都涉及到机构内的危险。
Problems in the identification of men who are likely to commit serious aggressive crimes against persons have inspired a large number of recent reviews (Gulevich & Boume, 1970; Megargee, 1976; Mesnikoff & Lauterback, 1975; Monahan, 1975, Quinsey; 1977a, 1977b; Quinsey, Ambtman, & Pruesse, 1977; Shah, 1978; Steadman, 1976; Steadman & Cocozza, 1974; Wenk, Robinson, & Smith, 1972). The quantity of reviews attests both to the importance of this unresolved problem and to the lack of need for yet another review of the literature on the prediction of dangerousness. The purpose of the present paper is not to present a survey of the literature but to describe the progress of a research program on dangerousness which has been conducted at the all male, maximum security,“Oak Ridge” Division of the Mental Health Centre in Penetanguishene, Ontario since 1971. A series of empirical studies involving assessments of the dangerousness of mental patients housed in maximum security will be reviewed from clinical, demographic, behavioral, psychometric, and psychophysiological perspectives in turn. It is hoped that this description of a series of inter-related research projects will indicate where progress has, and has not, been made and, in so doing, point to directions for future research. Because Oak Ridge is a psychiatric institution, many of the research studies deal with various measures of “mental illness” on the assumption (Quinsey, 1977a) that the psychiatric problems of Oak Ridge patients are related to their. violent or antisocial behaviors. Similarly, because certain of the more retarded and/or psychotic patients are frequently assaultive within the institution much of our research has dealt with intra-institutional dangerousness.