Not Criminally Responsible Offenders with Mental Illness in Finland : Social Control and Situational Characteristics of Offences
Keywords:
NCR offenders with mental illness, social control, FinlandAbstract
This paper examines how offences by individuals diagnosed with mental illness and evaluated as not criminally responsible (NCR) are socially situated in Finland. Data from mental state examination reports and records of psychiatric hospital treatment and criminal sanctions in 279 cases are used to examine the categorization of offences by situational features and to compare sources of informal and formal social control. Latent class analysis identifies three classes of offence: family-related, peer group-related, and property-centered or non-premeditated offences. Multinomial logistic regression and average marginal effects analyses are performed to identify differences in social control by class. The implications of these findings and suggestions for future research are discussed.
