Psychotic versus nonpsychotic misdemeanants in a large county jail: an analysis of pretrial treatment by the legal system.
Psychotic versus nonpsychotic misdemeanants in a large county jail: an analysis of pretrial treatment by the legal system.
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大型县监狱中的精神病与非精神病轻罪：法律系统审前治疗的分析。
DOI：
10.1016/0160-2527(92)90018-v
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发表时间：
1992
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
O. Wahl
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作者：
G. Axelson;O. Wahl
监狱中有大量患有精神病的男女，他们的精神病理水平往往很严重。一旦进了监狱，精神病患者就会处于有利于进一步失代偿和更高自杀率的条件下。如果是这样的话，监禁的时间-即暴露于这种有毒环境的时间-就不是微不足道的了。从正当程序的角度来看，更令人关切的是在确定有罪或无罪之前的监禁期限。因此，研究被监禁的精神病患者在等待审判时会发生什么是有意义的。我们的经验表明，审前监禁时间，即使是轻罪，也很长。因此，我们研究的中心假设是，被指控犯有轻罪的精神病患者在审判前的监禁时间要比他们的非精神病患者长得多。还收集了描述性数据。
There are significant numbers of mentally ill men and women in jail and the level of their psychopathology is often serious. Once in jail, the psychotic individual is subjected to conditions conducive to further decompensation and higher suicide rates. If this is the case, the duration of confinement--that is, the duration of exposure to this toxic environment--is not trivial. Of further concern, from the standpoint of due process, would be the duration of confinement prior to any determination of guilt or innocence. Therefore, it makes sense to examine what happens to jailed psychotic individuals as they wait for trial. Our experience suggested that pretrial jail time, even for minor offenses, is lengthy. The central hypothesis of our study, then, was that psychotic men, charged with misdemeanor offenses, would be incarcerated for significantly longer periods of time, prior to trial, than their nonpsychotic fellows. Descriptive data was also collected.