Sattar Ghazala
Offending and Criminal Justice Group, Research Development and Statistics Directorate, Home Office, London, UK.
Crisis. 2003;24(1):17-23. doi: 10.1027//0227-5910.24.1.17.
The death of offenders in the community has received considerably less attention than the death of prisoners, although limited research suggests that community offenders may be even more vulnerable to death than prisoners. This study compared the nature and extent of death among prisoners (n = 236) and offenders serving community sentences or ex-prisoners receiving postcustodial supervision by the Probation Service (n = 1,267) in England and Wales in 1996 and 1997. Information contained in death certificates was used to code for mode of death. Prisoners and community offenders were found to be reasonably similar in vulnerability to suicide/self-inflicted death; however, the risk of accidental death and homicide was greater for community offenders, and drugs and alcohol played a bigger part in their deaths. The policy implications of the findings are discussed.
社区服刑罪犯的死亡情况相比监狱囚犯受到的关注要少得多，尽管有限的研究表明社区服刑罪犯可能比监狱囚犯更容易死亡。本研究比较了1996年和1997年英格兰和威尔士监狱囚犯（n = 236）以及正在服社区刑罚的罪犯或接受缓刑服务机构的出狱后监管的罪犯（n = 1267）的死亡性质和程度。死亡证明中包含的信息被用于对死亡方式进行编码。结果发现，囚犯和社区服刑罪犯在自杀/自我伤害死亡的易感性方面相当相似；然而，社区服刑罪犯意外死亡和他杀的风险更大，毒品和酒精在他们的死亡中起了更大的作用。文中讨论了这些研究结果的政策含义。
