Blitz Cynthia L, Wolff Nancy, Shi Jing
Center for Mental Health Services & Criminal Justice Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., USA.
Int J Law Psychiatry. 2008 Oct-Nov;31(5):385-93. doi: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2008.08.005. Epub 2008 Sep 21.
This study compares prison physical victimization rates (inmate-on-inmate and staff-on-inmate) for people with mental disorder to those without mental disorder in a state prison system. Inmate subjects were drawn from 14 adult prisons operated by a single mid-Atlantic State. A sample of 7,528 subjects aged 18 or older (7,221 men and 564 women) completed an audio-computer administered survey instrument. Mental disorder was based on self-reported mental health treatment ever for particular mental disorders. Approximately one-quarter of the sample reported some prior treatment for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, PTSD, or anxiety disorder. Rates of physical victimization for males with any mental disorder were 1.6 times (inmate-on-inmate) and 1.2 times (staff-on-inmate) higher than that of males with no mental disorder. Female inmates with mental disorder were 1.7 times more likely to report being physically victimized by another inmate than did their counterparts with no mental disorder. Overall, both males and females with mental disorder are disproportionately represented among victims of physical violence inside prison.
本研究比较了在一个州监狱系统中,患有精神障碍者与无精神障碍者的监狱身体伤害发生率(囚犯对囚犯和工作人员对囚犯)。囚犯样本来自大西洋中部一个州运营的14所成人监狱。7528名年龄在18岁及以上的受试者(7221名男性和564名女性)完成了一项音频计算机管理的调查问卷。精神障碍基于自我报告的曾针对特定精神障碍接受过的心理健康治疗。大约四分之一的样本报告曾接受过针对精神分裂症、双相情感障碍、抑郁症、创伤后应激障碍或焦虑症的治疗。患有任何精神障碍的男性的身体伤害发生率比无精神障碍的男性高1.6倍(囚犯对囚犯)和1.2倍(工作人员对囚犯)。患有精神障碍的女性囚犯报告被其他囚犯身体伤害的可能性是无精神障碍女性囚犯的1.7倍。总体而言,患有精神障碍的男性和女性在监狱内身体暴力受害者中所占比例过高。