| Titre : | Community care and criminal offending in schizophrenia. (2000) |
| Auteurs : | P.E. MULLEN ; P. BURGESS ; S. PALMER ; D. RUSCHENA ; C. WALLACE ; Department of Psychological Medicine. Monash University. Victoria. AUS ; Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria. Victoria. AUS |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Lancet (The) (vol. 355, n° 9204, 2000) |
| Pagination : | 614-617 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Mots-clés : | Schizophrénie ; Etude comparée ; Communauté ; Soins intégrés ; Criminalité ; Responsabilité ; Facteur risque ; Homme ; Australie ; Océanie ; Psychose |
| Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST 4EER0xiV. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Background The introduction of community care in psychiatry is widely thought to have resulted in more offending among the seriously mentally ill. This view affects public policy towards and public perceptions of such people. We investigated the association between the introduction of community care and the pattern of offending in patients with schizophrenia in Victoria, Australia. Methods We established patterns of offending from criminal records in two groups of patients with schizophrenia over their lifetime to date and in the 10 years after their first hospital admission. One group was first admitted in 1975 before major deinstitutionalisation in Victoria, the second group in 1985 when community care was becoming the norm. Each patient was matched to a control, by age, sex, and place of residence to allow for changing patterns of offending over time in the wider community. Findings Compared with controls, significantly more of those with schizophrenia were convicted at least once for all categories of criminal offending except sexual offences (relative risk of offending in 1975=3.5 [95% Cl 2.0-5.5), p=0.001, in 1985=3.0 [1.9-4.9], p=0.001). Among men, more offences were committed in the 1985 group than the 1975 group, but this was matched by a similar increase in convictions among the community controls. Those with schizophrenia who had also received treatment for substance abuse accounted for a disproportionate amount of offending. (...) |
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