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Offense Characteristics of Career Criminals with Severe Mental Disorders B. AshfordSchool of Social Work, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, U.S.A. This article examined the offense characteristics between mentally disordered and non-mentally disordered inmates within two distinct subgroups of high rate offenders: "repeat" and "recidivist" offenders. The results indicated that the mentally disordered recidivists were charged more with minor crimes than the non-mentally disordered recidivists. This finding, coupled with the social differences found among non-serious repeat offenders, suggests that career criminals are not as homogenous-as a group than is generally assumed in the literature.
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 32, No. 2,
143-151 (1988) This article has been cited by other articles:
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