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| Psychiatric disorders in aging prisoners | | Author(s) | Judith J Regan, Ann Alderson, William M Regan |
| Journal title | Clinical Gerontologist, vol 26, nos 1/2, 2002 |
| Pages | pp 117-124 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Mental disorder ; Depression ; Dementia ; Prisoners ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The study describes and compares the 671 older individuals (aged 55+) presently in prison in the Tennessee State Prison System who have diagnosed with mental illnesses with those older prisoners without mental illness diagnoses. 16% of these individuals had a diagnosis of mental illness. Significance was found between gender and psychiatric illness, as well as between gender and the illnesses of dementia and depression. Women with a depressive disorder were more likely to have committed murder, and men with dementia were more likely to have committed a sex crime. The study raises critical issues relative to the older mentally ill prison population. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030516213 A |
| Classmark | E: ENR: EA: TGF: 7T |
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