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Chapter 23 - Criminogenic Risk and Mental Health: A Complicated Relationship

from Part IV - Nonpsychopharmacological Treatment Considerations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2021

By
Robert D. Morgan ,
Faith Scanlon  and
Stephanie A. Van Horn
Edited by
Katherine Warburton  and
Stephen M. Stahl
Katherine Warburton
Affiliation:
University of California, Davis
Stephen M. Stahl
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego
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Summary

The relationship between criminogenic risk and mental illness in justice-involved persons with mental illness (PMI) is complex and poorly understood. As previously noted, the general public is misinformed on the nature of this relationship, erroneously believing that mental illness causes violence and crime. This perception is compounded by news reports immediately speculating about mental illness in response to sensationalized criminal acts such as mass shootings, as well as in popular and social media. Of greater concern, however, is when clinicians, administrators, and policymakers are also misinformed. Criminal risk includes static (e.g. age, gender) and dynamic (e.g. antisocial attitudes, substance misuse) factors that place an individual at greater risk of involvement in crime.

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Decriminalizing Mental Illness , pp. 241 - 250
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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