Crime and Mental Illness
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- Crime and the Mentally Ill
- The M'Naghten Rules
- Protection of mentally ill offenders
- The M'Naghten Case in 1843
- Daniel M'Naghten
- Thought the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel was going to kill him.
- Attempted to shoot Peel but killed his secretary Edward Drummond
- Medical experts testified that M'Naghten was psychotic,
- M'Naghten was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
- Rules regarding criminal responsibility
- Not guilty by reason of insanity if, at the time of the alleged criminal act
- The defendant was so deranged that she did not know the nature or quality of her actions
- If she knew the nature and quality of her actions, she was so deranged that she did not know that what she was doing was wrong
- Not guilty by reason of insanity if, at the time of the alleged criminal act
- Overrepresentation in the CJS
- No Inherent Association
- Causal link between mental illness and incarceration
- Closure of community based services in 1960s
- Method of control?
- Closure of community based services in 1960s
- Causal link between mental illness and incarceration
- 50% of men and 30% of women in prison warrant a referral for severe depression
- No Inherent Association
- Theories
- Kiesler and Sibulking (1987) - Revolving Door Phenomenon
- Short term readmissions to psychiatric units
- Mainly young adults
- With chrnoic psychiatric disorders
- Kiesler and Sibulking (1987) - Revolving Door Phenomenon
- Types of mental illness
- Paranoid
- Schizoid
- Schizotypal
- Antisocial
- Borderline
- Histronic
- Narcissitic
- Avoidant
- Dependent
- Obsessive-compulsive
- The role of hormones
- Androgens - linked to female criminality (PMS)
- Insluin - hypoglycemia - increased chance of criminal acts
- Oestrogens
- Adrenaline and noradrenaline
- Main illnesses
- Schizophrenia
- A group of psychiatric disorders
- Characteristics
- Gross distortions of reality
- Withdrawal from social relationships
- Disordganisation and framantation of thoughts
- Links with genetics, biochemical and psychosocial factors
- Psychopathy
- Multiaxail including:
- Mental disorders
- Physical disorders
- Psychosexual stressors
- Affects levels of functioning
- Hare (1996) Classification
- Primary
- Secondary
- Dyssocial
- Prevalence
- 1% of the general population
- 15-25% of the prison population
- Characteristics
- Cold-blooded
- Sadistic
- Vindictive
- In control of emotions when committing crime
- Multiaxail including:
- Psychopathology
- Measured using an electroencephalogram
- Brainwave changes in the cerebral cotrtex
- Four frequency bands
- Delta (0.5-4Hz) – The Deep Sleep Wave
- Beta (14-40Hz) – The Waking Consciousness And Reasoning Wave
- Alpha (7.5-14Hz) – The Deep Relaxation Wave
- Slow
- Theta (4-7.5Hz) – The Light Meditation And Sleeping Wave
- Excess
- No conclusive evidence
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- Measured using an electroencephalogram
- Schizophrenia
- The M'Naghten Rules
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