Psychiatric morbidity in prisoners and solitary cellular confinement, I: disciplinary segregation

TY - JOUR

T1 - Psychiatric morbidity in prisoners and solitary cellular confinement, I: disciplinary segregation

AU - Coid, J

AU - Petruckevitch, A

AU - Bebbington, P

AU - Jenkins, R

AU - Brugha, T

AU - Lewis, G

AU - Farrell, M

AU - Singleton, N

PY - 2003/9

Y1 - 2003/9

N2 - Surveys of prisoners have demonstrated a high prevalence of psychiatric morbidity. There is increasing concern that behavioural disorder a secondary to psychiatric morbidity may be perceived and dealt with by prison staff as a disciplinary problem instead of as illness-related behaviour. A survey among prisoners in England and Wales identified the characteristics of those who had been placed In disciplinary segregation. There was no evidence that prisoners with severe mental illness were more likely to report disciplinary segregation following adjudication under the prison rules. Segregated prisoners were more likely to be younger, with histories of violent offending, career criminality, early environmental disadvantage, anti-social personality disorder, drug misuse-specifically crack cocaine-and higher scores of psychopathy. Disciplinary segregation may be an indicator of increased risk of future offending.

AB - Surveys of prisoners have demonstrated a high prevalence of psychiatric morbidity. There is increasing concern that behavioural disorder a secondary to psychiatric morbidity may be perceived and dealt with by prison staff as a disciplinary problem instead of as illness-related behaviour. A survey among prisoners in England and Wales identified the characteristics of those who had been placed In disciplinary segregation. There was no evidence that prisoners with severe mental illness were more likely to report disciplinary segregation following adjudication under the prison rules. Segregated prisoners were more likely to be younger, with histories of violent offending, career criminality, early environmental disadvantage, anti-social personality disorder, drug misuse-specifically crack cocaine-and higher scores of psychopathy. Disciplinary segregation may be an indicator of increased risk of future offending.

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/0142057251

U2 - 10.1080/1478994031000095510

DO - 10.1080/1478994031000095510

M3 - Article

VL - 14

SP - 298

EP - 319

JO - JOURNAL OF FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHOLOGY

JF - JOURNAL OF FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHOLOGY

IS - 2

ER -