Jacobs Leah A, Panichelli Meg
School of Social Work, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA.
Department of Undergraduate Social Work, West Chester University of PA, West Chester, USA.
Deviant Behav. 2020;41(12):1540-1558. doi: 10.1080/01639625.2019.1631067. Epub 2019 Jun 24.
Individuals with serious mental disorder diagnoses (SMD) are overrepresented in U.S. jails and prisons, returning to custody more often and more quickly than those without these diagnoses. This paper examines the strengths and limitations of existing theoretical interpretations of justice involvement among those with SMD and presents results from in-depth interviews (n = 23) in an effort to direct an alternative theoretical path. Findings indicate people with SMD are not simply subject to the whims of their psychopathology, and instead are whose arrests are related to early institutionalization, interpersonal conflict, and life circumstances punctuated by socioeconomic marginality. Such findings suggest longitudinal and multi-level theoretical orientations are most appropriate for understanding carceral involvement among individuals with SMD.
患有严重精神障碍诊断(SMD)的个体在美国监狱中所占比例过高,与没有这些诊断的人相比,他们更频繁、更快地再次被拘留。本文探讨了对患有SMD的人参与司法事务的现有理论解释的优势和局限性,并展示了深入访谈(n = 23)的结果,以努力引导出一条替代理论路径。研究结果表明,患有SMD的人并非仅仅受其精神病理学突发奇想的影响,相反,他们的被捕与早期机构化、人际冲突以及以社会经济边缘化特征的生活环境有关。这些发现表明,纵向和多层次的理论取向最适合理解患有SMD的个体与监禁的关联。