Prisoner Clinical Trial
Official title:
Predictive Factors of Violence in Prison, Retrospective Study in an French Incarcerated Male Population
Prison concentrates people with violent behavior and patients suffering from psychiatric
disorders. Aggression are daily, the suicide rate is 5 to 10 times higher than the ordinary
environment and current prevention devices have shown their limits.
That's why, in order to improve the violence's prevention in prison, the investigator propose
to identify the predictive factors of violence by studying retrospectively the link between
the psychiatric profile and commission of violence after being jailed.
From the 1st January to the 31 December 2012, every man incarcerated was screened thanks to
the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI) to establish the presence of a
current and/or past psychiatric diagnoses. In addition, collection of violent incidents based
on penitentiary's reports (aggression, suicide, self-mutilation, intoxication, murder…) was
conducted .
Then statistic analysis compared psychiatric characteristics of prisoners according to
whether they commit violence or not within 12 months after being jailed, distinguish the
authors of self and hetero aggressive violence. Those tests are completed with a cluster
analysis to precise psychiatric from criminological profiles of dangerousness.
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