Mental health risk factors for criminal recidivism and mortality in individuals given community sentences

Thesis

Individuals with psychiatric disorders are overrepresented in correctional populations. Given their high prevalence, understanding the role that psychiatric disorders play in criminal behaviour is essential for achieving the primary goal of correctional systems - preventing future crime. Understanding psychiatric disorders is also relevant for mitigating potential health risks, mortality being the most serious, associated with criminal behaviour and sentencing. Despite the apparent need, v...

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Authors: Yukhnenko, D

• DOI: 10.5287/ora-00vkdmva0
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: probation; criminal recidivism; mortality; criminal justice; epidemiology; community sentence; prediction modelling; survival analysis; forensic psychiatry
• Subjects: Psychiatric epidemiology; Forensic psychiatry