Examining Violence Among Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity State Hospital Inpatients Across Multiple Time Points: The Roles of Criminogenic Risk Factors and Psychiatric Symptoms

Chapter 22 - Examining Violence Among Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity State Hospital Inpatients Across Multiple Time Points: The Roles of Criminogenic Risk Factors and Psychiatric Symptoms

from Part IV - Nonpsychopharmacological Treatment Considerations

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 October 2021

Darci Delgado ,

Sean M. Mitchell ,

Robert D. Morgan and

Faith Scanlon

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Katherine Warburton and

Stephen M. Stahl

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Katherine Warburton: Affiliation:
University of California, Davis
Stephen M. Stahl: Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego

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Institutional violence and associated risk factors within state hospitals have largely remained unexamined in the literature in spite of high violence prevalence rates: almost one-third (31.4%) of state hospital inpatients will engage in a violent assault during their hospitalization course. This dearth of research is particularly true for state hospital inpatients adjudicated not guilty by reason of insanity (NGRI). An NGRI status indicates that an individual has been evaluated and deemed guilty of a criminal act but, due to mental disease or defect, was incapable of either knowing or understanding the nature of their act or was incapable of distinguishing between right and wrong at the time of their crime.

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Information: Decriminalizing Mental Illness , pp. 231 - 240

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108920698 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2021

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