PMID- 12380418
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20030224
LR  - 20041117
IS  - 1093-6793 (Print)
IS  - 1093-6793 (Linking)
VI  - 30
IP  - 3
DP  - 2002
TI  - A cross-sectional study of psychosocial and criminal factors associated with 
      arrest in mentally ill female detainees.
PG  - 380-90
AB  - In this study, the relationship was examined among clinical, criminal, and 
      sociodemographic characteristics and the severity of the criminal charge of 
      mentally ill female detainees admitted to the women's psychiatric unit at a large 
      urban jail. In a cross-sectional study, 96 randomly selected female detainees 
      were interviewed by one of two trained interviewers using the Structured Clinical 
      Interview for DSM (SCID)-IV, the Addiction Severity Index, the Global Assessment 
      of Functioning Scale (GAF), and the Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short-Form 
      Health Survey. Criminal offense categories were based on the Federal Bureau of 
      Investigation's Uniform Crime Reporting Program. Altogether, 48 percent of the 
      detainees had been charged with committing at least one Part I crime; 27 percent 
      were charged with committing a violent crime against persons. Lower GAF score and 
      previous conviction(s) for a serious crime were associated with current arrest 
      for a Part I crime. The data also suggest that a lower GAF score may be 
      associated with a current charge of committing a violent crime, and placement on 
      probation or parole before the current arrest may be protective against this 
      charge. Mentally ill women who are more functionally impaired may be at higher 
      risk of being arrested and charged with committing more serious and more violent 
      crimes than those with lesser impairment.
FAU - Kravitz, Howard M
AU  - Kravitz HM
AD  - Department of Psychiatry, Section on Psychiatry and Law, Department of Preventive 
      Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, Rush Medical College of Rush University, 
      Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA. hkravitz@rush.edu
FAU - Cavanaugh, James L Jr
AU  - Cavanaugh JL Jr
FAU - Rigsbee, Sandra S
AU  - Rigsbee SS
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law
JT  - The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
JID - 9708963
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Cognition Disorders/diagnosis/etiology
MH  - *Commitment of Mentally Ill
MH  - Crime/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Mental Disorders/diagnosis/*psychology
MH  - Neuropsychological Tests
MH  - Prisoners/*psychology
EDAT- 2002/10/17 04:00
MHDA- 2003/02/25 04:00
CRDT- 2002/10/17 04:00
PHST- 2002/10/17 04:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2003/02/25 04:00 [medline]
PHST- 2002/10/17 04:00 [entrez]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 2002;30(3):380-90.