Risk of trauma exposure among persons with mental illness in jails and prisons: What do we really know?

Current Opinion in Psychiatry

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 431-435

  Crisanti, Annette S ^a   Frueh, B Christopher ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

^c MENNINGER CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

criminal justice; incarcerated populations; jails and prisons; mental illness; posttraumatic stress disorder; severe mental illness; trauma; victimization

Indexed keywords

ASSAULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; DELUSION; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INJURY; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MOOD DISORDER; OFFENDER; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREGNANCY; PRISON; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL ABUSE; SEXUAL CRIME; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TRAUMA VICTIMIZATION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PRISONERS; PRISONS; RISK; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 80051794686     PISSN: 09517367     EISSN: 14736578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/YCO.0b013e328349bbb8     Document Type: Review

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