@article{ref1,
title="Psychiatric Disorder in London's Life-Sentenced Offenders",
journal="British journal of criminology",
year="1986",
author="Taylor, Pamela J.",
volume="26",
number="1",
pages="63-78",
abstract="A review of life-sentenced men and women, supervised by probation officers in the Inner London Probation Service, was carried out by questionnaire to the supervising officers. There appeared to be a high rate of psychiatric disorder, whether the lifers were in prison or in the community. Overall two-thirds of the lifers had a psychiatric diagnosis. Nearly 10 per cent, of them had schizophrenia, a slightly higher proportion had a depressive illness and one-third had received a definite diagnosis of personality disorder. In most of the latter cases personality disorder was not the sole diagnosis. On a number of superficial social measures the released lifers had adjusted well. Nearly a third, however, had been recalled at some stage and there was a suggestion that psychiatric disorder may have been an important factor in the decision to recall.<p />",
language="",
issn="0007-0955",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}