NCJ Number
148783
Date Published
1994
Length
24 pages
Annotation
This report presents statistics on mentally ill offenders in England and Wales in 1992 and notes that the population detained in hospital at the end of 1992 was 2,333, which was higher than in any of the previous 10 years.
Abstract
The number of offenders transferred from prison before their sentence increased 49 percent between 1991 and 1992 from 264 to 393, while after sentencing the number increased from 182 to 239. A total of 832 restricted patients were admitted to the hospital in 1992, three times the number admitted in 1982. Ten percent of those admitted were female. Ninety-three percent of restricted patients admitted to hospital had a mental illness; in 1982, 80 percent had a mental illness. Figures, tables, and list of other bulletins from the Home Office