Jeffrey Draine, MSW, PhD
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Research - Current Projects
Examination Of Incarceration Of Psychiatric Offenders
Description: The study is designed to examine an aspect of the criminalization hypothesis among a sub-population of mentally disordered individuals who are under psychiatric probation/parole by testing the relationship of psychiatric status, clinical characteristics, satisfaction with quality of life, and mental health service variables to particular types of incarceration. These psychiatric variables are expected to have explanatory power when controlling for the traditional predictive variables of socio-demographic characteristics and criminal history with regard to incarceration among psychiatric probationers/parolees when incarceration is disaggregated categorically into incarceration for technical violations and new charges.
The study will examine the use of i ncarceration for technical violations for the management of psychiatric disorders more than for the conventional use of punishment of criminal behavior. A sample of 250 psychiatric probationers /parolees who are new intakes with a severe psychiatric diagnosis will be followed for one year or until incarceration, which ever occurs first. Data will be collected from the subjects and probation /parole officers every three months as well as from other existing sources. Data will be analyzed using event history, discriminant function, and logistic regression analyses.
Project Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health
Dates: 9/94 - 9/98
Project Staff: Phyllis Solomon, PhD, Principal Investigator (solomonp@sp2.upenn.edu); Jeffrey Draine, PhD, Project Coordinator (jdraine@sp2.upenn.edu)
Project Number: SOLO-94-01
Entry Date: September, 1998