The Criminally Insane is the largest scale in-depth follow-up study on mentally ill criminals yet to appear. This book challenges the assumption that inmates of maximum-security mental hospitals are extraordinarily violent and questions the necessity for maintaining maximum-security institutions which currently house some 15,000 persons in the United States. In 1971, 586 patients were released from a Pennsylvania maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane. They were not considered officially "cured," but a ...
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The Criminally Insane is the largest scale in-depth follow-up study on mentally ill criminals yet to appear. This book challenges the assumption that inmates of maximum-security mental hospitals are extraordinarily violent and questions the necessity for maintaining maximum-security institutions which currently house some 15,000 persons in the United States. In 1971, 586 patients were released from a Pennsylvania maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane. They were not considered officially "cured," but a federal court held that their commitments had been unconstitutional. Through exhaustive examination of hospital and police records and interviews with hospital administrators and the subjects themselves, Thornberry and Jacoby assess the processes by which the patients had been retained in confinement, the impact of their release upon their communities, and their ability to adjust to the freedom of community life. The authors demonstrate that the patients did not display a significant level of violent behavior during confinement, nor did they pose a major threat to society after release. In fact, their social and psychological adjustment to community life is shown to have been comparable to that of non-criminal mental patients. Yet despite these findings the subjects had been retained in maximum-security confinement for an average of fourteen years because they were predicted to be violent and "dangerous" to society. The authors explain this inaccuracy by a process called "political prediction," in which clinicians avoid any potential risks to the community, the reputation of their hospitals, and their careers by consistently overpredicting dangerous behavior. The Criminally Insane will stimulate response from professionals in a wide variety of fields, including law, criminology, psychiatry, and sociology, and from anyone concerned with society's responsibility to the mentally ill offender.
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Very good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Studies in Crime & Justice (Hardcover). Audience: General/trade. LCCN 78010703 Type of material Book Personal name Thornberry, Terence P. Main title The criminally insane: a community follow-up of mentally ill offenders / Terence P. Thornberry, Joseph E. Jacoby. Published/Created Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979. Description xii, 292 p. : ill.; 22 cm. ISBN 0226798186 LC classification HV8742. U52 T56 Related names Jacoby, Joseph E., joint author. Subjects Pennsylvania. State Hospital for Criminal Insane, Farview. Mentally ill offenders--Pennsylvania. Criminal behavior, Prediction of. Recidivists--Pennsylvania. Notes Includes index. Bibliography: p. 281-285. Series Studies in crime and justice Dewey class no. 365/.46 Geographic area code n-us-pa
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