Coid Jeremy, Petruckevitch Ann, Bebbington Paul, Brugha Traolach, Bhugra Dinesh, Jenkins Rachel, Farrell Mike, Lewis Glyn, Singleton Nicola
Department of Psychological Medicine, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London.
Br J Psychiatry. 2002 Dec;181:473-80. doi: 10.1192/bjp.181.6.473.
In England and Wales, persons of African-Caribbean origin are more likely to be both imprisoned and admitted to secure hospitals.
To estimate population-based rates of imprisonment in different ethnic groups, and compare criminal behaviour and psychiatric morbidity.
We examined Home Office data on all persons in prison, and carried out a two-stage cross-sectional survey of 3142 remanded and sentenced, male and female, prisoners in all penal establishments in England and Wales in 1997.
We confirmed high rates of imprisonment for Black people and lower rates for South Asians. Different patterns of offending and lower prevalence of psychiatric morbidity were observed in Black prisoners.
Despite increased risks of imprisonment, African-Caribbeans show less psychiatric morbidity than White prisoners. This contrasts with the excess of African-Caribbeans in secure hospitals, an inconsistency possibly in part due to the effects of ethnic groups on admission procedures.
在英格兰和威尔士，非裔加勒比裔人群被监禁和被收治进安全医院的可能性更高。
估计不同种族群体基于人群的监禁率，并比较犯罪行为和精神疾病发病率。
我们查阅了内政部关于所有在押人员的数据，并于1997年对英格兰和威尔士所有刑罚机构中3142名被还押和被判刑的男女囚犯进行了两阶段横断面调查。
我们证实黑人的监禁率较高，南亚人的监禁率较低。在黑人囚犯中观察到不同的犯罪模式和较低的精神疾病发病率。
尽管非裔加勒比裔被监禁的风险增加，但他们的精神疾病发病率低于白人囚犯。这与非裔加勒比裔在安全医院中的比例过高形成对比，这种不一致可能部分归因于种族群体对收治程序的影响。
