The Effect of Community Treatment Orders on Offending Rates

Autor:	Kenneth P. O'Brien, William G. Hough
Rok vydání:	2005
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Project commissioning business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) Occupational safety and health Pathology and Forensic Medicine Compliance (psychology) Psychiatry and Mental health medicine Mandate Psychology (miscellaneous) Psychiatry Prescribed medications business Law
Zdroj:	Psychiatry, Psychology and Law. 12:411-423
ISSN:	1934-1687 1321-8719
Popis:	Community Treatment Orders (CTO), or involuntary outpatient treatment, refer to mandated community treatment. They are for those who suffer from serious mental disorder, who do not voluntarily take prescribed medications or for whom compliance is problematical and as a result are unable to maintain their own health and safety, or the protection of others. Under this mandate, CTO recipients should demonstrate a decrease in dangerousness including criminal offending. Research in this field is particularly pertinent as recent evidence indicates an association between serious mental disorder and offending, particularly violent offending. The aim of this research is to determine whether CTOs assist in reducing the incidence of offending and violent offending. In order to test the efficacy of the CTO, criminal records of all CTO recipients in South Australia in the interval January, 1995 to September, 1998 were compared one year prior to a CTO, one year during CTO and one year post-CTO. Although the majority of...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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