Kearns A, O'Connor A
Chase Farm Hospital, The Ridgeway.
Br J Psychiatry. 1988 Jun;152:848-51. doi: 10.1192/bjp.152.6.848.
With mentally handicapped people now being moved into the community, information on mentally handicapped criminal offenders is valuable. A group of such offenders was examined by reviewing the case-notes of 92 patients referred on hospital order to two mental-handicap hospitals over 10 years. Compared with the general criminal population, these offenders' ages were higher, the ratio of male to female offenders was similar, and the proportion of married people was lower. The offences committed were for the most part serious, with a greater number of offences against property and public order in the subgroup whose intelligence were in the mentally handicapped range. Their tested intelligence fell almost entirely into the normal and mild mental-handicap range, suggesting that factors other than intelligence testing, such as social skills, were considered in their admission to the hospitals.
随着现在智力障碍者被安置到社区中，有关智力障碍罪犯的信息变得很有价值。通过回顾10年间根据医院指令转诊到两家智力障碍医院的92名患者的病历，对一组此类罪犯进行了研究。与一般犯罪人群相比，这些罪犯的年龄较大，男女罪犯比例相似，已婚者比例较低。所犯罪行大多较为严重，在智力处于智力障碍范围内的亚组中，针对财产和公共秩序的犯罪数量更多。他们经测试的智力几乎全部落在正常和轻度智力障碍范围内，这表明在他们入院时考虑的是智力测试以外的因素，如社交技能。
