Researchers challenge myth of the relationship between mental illness and incarceration

(Bar-Ilan University) Researchers examined the relationship between psychiatric diagnoses and future incarceration by merging data from psychiatric interviews that took place in the 1980s with 30 years of follow-up data. Among other things, they found that diagnoses of substance use and antisocial personality were predictors of future incarceration but that other psychiatric diagnoses (i.e., schizophrenia, affective disorders, anxiety disorders, as well as some other psychiatric disorders) were not independent predictors.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news