Grekin P M, Jemelka R, Trupin E W
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle 98195.
Bull Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 1994;22(3):411-20.
"Criminalization," the hypothesis that mentally ill persons are diverted to the criminal justice system, has been difficult to confirm. The few relevant studies have examined aspects of the mental health or the criminal justice systems, but not both. This study compares state hospital admissions with the admission of mentally ill persons to state prisons. There was considerable variation between counties. Counties sent more mentally ill members of their largest minority group to prison than expected. These results suggest that jurisdictions differ in their use of these two systems and that race is a factor in this difference.
“刑事定罪化”假说认为，精神病患者会被转至刑事司法系统，但这一假说很难得到证实。为数不多的相关研究仅考察了心理健康系统或刑事司法系统的某些方面，而非二者兼顾。本研究对州立医院收治情况与州立监狱收治精神病患者的情况进行了比较。各县之间存在相当大的差异。各县将其最大少数群体中患有精神疾病的成员送入监狱的人数超出预期。这些结果表明，不同司法管辖区在这两个系统的使用上存在差异，而且种族是造成这种差异的一个因素。
