The current article investigates the association between childhood adversity histories and prison-based psychological distress and substance use with an incarcerated adult male sample using a person-centered approach. Our study uses self-reported data from 943 men...
Topic: mental health
Associations among psychological distress, adverse childhood experiences, social support, and resilience in incarcerate men
This study examines the association between psychological distress and two aggravating factors (childhood adversity and substance use) and two mitigating factors (social support and resilience) in a correctional sample of 943 men. Participants completed a...
Are mental health courts target efficient?
In practice, the “problem-solving” movement is an attempt to migrate certain problems present among offenders in the traditional criminal court system into an alternative court system that uses a different kind of processing approach; one where the emphasis is on...
Self-report rates of physical and sexual violence among Spanish inmates by mental illness and gender
High rates of mental illnesses and victimization have been reported for prison populations. This study estimates physical and sexual victimization rates (inmate-on-inmate and staff-on-inmate) for people with and without mental illnesses residing in Spanish prisons. A...



