TY - JOUR
T1 - Psychiatric Disorders and Criminal Recidivism
T2 - A Follow-Up Study of Female Criminals
AU - Cloninger, C. Robert
AU - Guze, Samuel B.
PY - 1973/8
Y1 - 1973/8
N2 - A systematic psychiatric study of a group of paroled, convicted, female felons was followed two to three years later by an analysis of their rates of criminal recidivism. Recidivism was found to be significantly related to past criminal record, a particular type of index crime, age, education, marital status, familial history, and psychiatric diagnosis. About 90% of the recidivists had received a diagnosis of sociopathy at the index interview. Among the sociopaths, drug dependence and relative youth were associated with still higher recidivism rates: 82% of the young drug-dependent sociopaths were rearrested and 64% were reconvicted.
AB - A systematic psychiatric study of a group of paroled, convicted, female felons was followed two to three years later by an analysis of their rates of criminal recidivism. Recidivism was found to be significantly related to past criminal record, a particular type of index crime, age, education, marital status, familial history, and psychiatric diagnosis. About 90% of the recidivists had received a diagnosis of sociopathy at the index interview. Among the sociopaths, drug dependence and relative youth were associated with still higher recidivism rates: 82% of the young drug-dependent sociopaths were rearrested and 64% were reconvicted.
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U2 - 10.1001/archpsyc.1973.04200020088012
DO - 10.1001/archpsyc.1973.04200020088012
M3 - Article
C2 - 4741517
AN - SCOPUS:0015729920
VL - 29
SP - 266
EP - 269
JO - Archives of General Psychiatry
JF - Archives of General Psychiatry
SN - 0003-990X
IS - 2
ER -