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Mental Disorder Among Prisoners: Toward an Epidemiologic Inventory book cover

1st Edition

Mental Disorder Among Prisoners Toward an Epidemiologic Inventory

By Nathaniel Pallone Copyright 1991
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge
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What do we know about the mental health of inmates? What are the implications of what we know? Nathaniel J. Pallone characterizes opinion on these questions as falling into two broad camps: the "tender-hearted," those who see an overlap between mental illness and criminal behaviour, and are treatment-oriented; and the "tough-minded," those who have little confidence in psychiatric categories, do... Read more

Contents

Preface

1 Without Comprehensive Data, Bias Flowers Easily
Cherished Beliefs at Diametric Poles
Toward Sophisticated Guesswork
The Burden of Inconvenient Knowledge

2 Epidemiological Studies of Mental Health and Illness
Methods of Assessing Mental Disorder
Studies of Mental Illness in the General Population
Demographic Characteristics of Correctional Populations
Relative Incidence of Mental Disorder by Race
Relative Incidence of Mental Disorder by Gender
The Issue of Socioeconomic Class
Psychometric Studies among Prisoners
Mental Retardation among Prisoners
The Limits of Generalizability
Conclusion

3 Alcohol and Substance Abuse Disorders
Substance Abuse as Criminal and as Criminogenic
Incidence of Alcohol and Substance Abuse
Base Rates in the General Population
Conclusion

4 Neurogenic Mental Disorders
Organic Disorders and Violent Behavior
Cause, Effect, or Concomitant?
The Question of Culpability Revisited
Correctional Management of Neurogenic Violence
Conclusion

5 Reprise: Estimates of Mental Health Staffing Needs
Probable Incidence of Mental Disorder among Prisoners
The Right to "Treatment" and to "Care"
Judicially-Imposed Mental Health Staffing Standards

6 After-Words: Parables of Convenient Ignorance and
Casual Indifference
A Demurrer about Causality
Mental Health Care vs. Correctional Rehabilitation
A Parable about Elephants and Giraffes

7 General Summary

References

Index

Biography

Nathaniel Pallone

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