Wilson
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(T/F) Crimes are often motivated by symptoms of mental illness.
False
Do genetics impact one's likelihood of engaging in aggressive behaviors?
Yes.
T/F. According to this study, perceptions of an individual's propensity to commit crime is negatively affected if that person has a history of mental illness?
True
Vashney: What percentage of people with mental disorders such as schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders behave violently?
10%
T/F. 6 to 31% of people in jails and 6 to 14% of people in prison suffer from a serious mental illness.
True.
"Those with depression were ___ likely to have a direct crime than those with other disorders." Fill in the blank
Less
"the presence of additional psychiatric disorders is associated with _________ risk of violence" Fill in the blank
Increased
How many participants took part in this study?
243
Vashney: What group of people can we predict to act violently?
People with schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders and who also suffer from substance abuse. They have to have both for us to predict violent behavior.
The sample for this study included ____ individuals with serious mental illness in county jail, and ____ individuals with serious mental illness incarcerated in state prison. (Fill In The Blank)
93, 217
This institute’s legal definition of insanity states that “a person is not responsible for criminal conduct if...he lacks substantial capacity either to appreciate the criminality [wrongfulness] of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of the law.”
The American Law Institute
What is the strongest risk factor for violence of psychiatric diagnoses?
Substance misuse (including alcohol)
Did the participants in the study believe that people with mental illness would commit major or minor crimes in the future?
Garcia: What is the most important when it comes to influencing participant attitudes about PERCEIVED risk of criminality?
Mental Illness
Results indicated that people with serious mental illness incarcerated in jail and prison had ________ overall criminal risk levels than prison inmates without mental illness. (Fill In The Blank)
Higher
Name one limitation of the study presented in the Peterson et al. article.
Small study sample (n=143), excluded offenders with a violent index offense, records available for review were limited.
In regards to PTSD, what factor was most important to determine violent offending in military populations?
Having a combat role (not deployment).
What mental illnesses were used in the scenarios in this study?
Schizophrenia, Depression and Anxiety, and Alcohol dependency.
Garcia: What combination elicited higher levels of perceived severity of future crimes.
Schizophrenia and alcohol dependency
What are the eight criminogenic risk domains included in this study?
1. Leisure/Recreation
2. Antisocial Associates
3. Drug/Alcohol Problem
4. Antisocial Cognition
5. Antisocial Personality Pattern
6. Antisocial Behavior
7. Education/Employment
8. Family/Marital Relations
Prior literature reviews suggest that diversion programs that emphasize symptom control have what effect on recidivism?
No significant impact/effect on recidivism.
Which three mental illnesses have an absolute rate of violence over 5 percent?
Personality disorders, substance abuse, and schizophrenia
How many Conditions were used in the design of this study?
6
Garcia: What was the at least one of the limitations? And what is the acronym for the population that was used within this study?
1) Lacking ecological validity 2) disproportionately more female participants randomly assigned to the depression 3) No diversity within the participates
Acronym=WERID
Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic