Mental Disorder and Violent Crime: A 20-Year Cohort Study in New York State, 1968-1988 (ICPSR 9978)

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Henry J. Steadman; Pamela Clark Robbins; Carmen Cirincione

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The objectives of this study were (1) to compare long-term patterns of violent crime for mentally disordered patients and for prison inmates, and (2) to evaluate the predictive validity of a diagnosis of schizophrenia for subsequent arrests for violent crimes. For purposes of this data collection, violent crimes were defined as including murder, manslaughter, rape, assault, kidnapping, and sodomy. The study analyzed individual state mental hospital patients and inmates of state prisons in New York State over a 20-year span. In the process of obtaining information regarding the individuals, three different areas were focused on: hospital, incarceration, and arrest histories. Variables for hospital histories include inpatient hospitalizations, admission and discharge dates, legal status for all state hospitals through 1988, primary diagnosis for target and most recent admissions, and placements in New York State Department of Correctional Services mental hospitals. Incarceration history variables include time spent in adult state prisons, incarcerations through 1988, and dates of release (including re-entry to community on parole, outright release, or escape). Arrest histories include information on the subject's first adult arrest through 1988 (only the most serious charge for each incident is recorded) and out-of-state arrests, when available. Demographic variables include age, race, and date of birth.

Steadman, Henry J., Robbins, Pamela Clark, and Cirincione, Carmen. Mental Disorder and Violent Crime:  A 20-Year Cohort Study in New York State, 1968-1988. Inter-university Consortium of Political and Social Research [distributor], 1996-02-09. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09978.v3

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United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice (88-IJ-CX-0039)
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(1) Male offenders 18 to 65 years old admitted to New York state prisons in 1968 and 1978, except for within-state transfers, those returning from mental hospitals, and those in city or county jails, and (2) male patients 18 to 65 years old admitted to New York state psychiatric centers in 1968 and 1978, exempting those transferred from other state hospitals and those admitted to special facilities for the mentally retarded or for alcoholics, to the Department of Correctional Services-operated mental health facility, or to special secure facilities.

records from (1) New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services, (2) New York State Office of Mental Health, and (3) New York State Department of Correctional Services

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2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:

  • Steadman, Henry J., Pamela Clark Robbins, and Carmen Cirincione. Mental Disorder and Violent Crime: A 20-Year Cohort Study in New York State, 1968-1988. ICPSR09978-v3. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium of Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-01-24. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09978.v3

1993-10-11 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Standardized missing values.

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Smith, Alicia An examination of mental illness and violent behavior. 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology. Toronto, Canada.
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1984
Steadman, Henry J., Monahan, John, Duffee, Barbara, Hartstone, Eliot, Robbins, Pamela The impact of state mental hospital deinstitutionalization on United States prison populations, 1968-1978. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. 75, (2), 474-490.
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1991
Robbins, Pamela C. Mental Disorder and Violent Crime: A 20-Year Cohort Study, Final Report. NCJ 136199, Washington, DC: United States Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice.
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1994
Cirincione, Carmen, Steadman, Henry J., Robbins, Pamela Clark, Monahan, John Mental Illness As a Factor in Criminality A Study of Prisoners and Mental Patients. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health. 4, (1), 33-47.
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1992
Cirincione, Carmen, Steadman, Henry J., Robbins, Pamela Clark, Monahan, John Mental Illness As a Factor in Criminality A Study of Prisoners and Mental Patients. NCJ 141673, Washington, DC: United States Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice.
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1992
Cirincione, Carmen, Steadman, Henry J., Robbins, Pamela C., Monahan, John Schizophrenia as a contingent risk factor for criminal violence. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. 15, (4), 347-358.
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1984
Steadman, Henry J., Felson, Richard B. Self-Reports of Violence. Criminology. 22, (3), 321-342.
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