School of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USA.
Minnesota Department of Corrections, Saint Paul, MN, USA.
Psychiatr Q. 2021 Sep;92(3):1147-1158. doi: 10.1007/s11126-021-09883-1. Epub 2021 Feb 15.
The prevalence of, and link between, mental health disorders-such as traumatic brain injury (TBI) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)-and antisocial behavior is well-documented among the military veteran population. Studies also show that TBI and PTSD account for variation in prison-based and re-entry outcomes. Despite this body of research, comparatively fewer studies have explicitly focused on how these factors affect prison adjustment for inmates with prior military experience. We used administrative data provided by the Minnesota Department of Corrections (MnDOC) and employed a series of survival analyses to examine how prior diagnoses of TBI and PTSD (among other risk factors) influence metrics of institutional adjustment and recidivism among a sample of military veterans. Our results indicate that the effects of TBI, PTSD, and other indicators of criminogenic risk are relevant when examining the experiences of justice-involved military veterans-especially with respect recidivism-based outcomes. The implications of our results are discussed and directions for future research are given.
在退伍军人群体中，心理健康障碍（如创伤性脑损伤（TBI）和创伤后应激障碍（PTSD））与反社会行为之间的关联性及其流行程度已得到充分证实。研究还表明，TBI 和 PTSD 会导致监狱内和重新融入社会的结果出现差异。尽管有大量的研究，但相对较少的研究明确关注这些因素如何影响有军事经验的囚犯在监狱中的适应情况。我们使用明尼苏达州惩教部（MnDOC）提供的行政数据，并采用一系列生存分析来研究 TBI 和 PTSD 的先前诊断（以及其他风险因素）如何影响军事退伍军人样本的机构调整和累犯的衡量标准。我们的研究结果表明，在研究涉及司法的退伍军人的经历时，TBI、PTSD 和其他犯罪风险指标的影响是相关的——尤其是在累犯为导向的结果方面。我们讨论了研究结果的意义，并给出了未来研究的方向。
