Gottfried Emily D, Christopher Sheresa C
1 Community & Public Safety Psychiatry Division, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA.
J Correct Health Care. 2017 Jul;23(3):336-346. doi: 10.1177/1078345817716180.
This article examines mental illness among adult, juvenile, male, female, jail, and prison inmates. It also explores the way in which mental health diagnoses impact offending and violent behavior. A review of literature pertaining to differences between the genders and age of offenders suggests that psychiatric disorders are more common among criminal offenders than the population at large. Furthermore, it appears that many mentally ill offenders do not receive sufficient treatment during their incarcerations and that barriers inherent to incarceration prevent adequate treatment of mental illnesses.
本文研究了成年、青少年、男性、女性、监狱和看守所中的精神疾病。它还探讨了心理健康诊断对犯罪和暴力行为的影响方式。对有关罪犯性别和年龄差异的文献综述表明，精神疾病在刑事罪犯中比普通人群更为常见。此外，许多患有精神疾病的罪犯在监禁期间似乎没有得到足够的治疗，而且监禁所固有的障碍阻碍了对精神疾病的充分治疗。
