The English Special Hospital—A 12–17 Year Follow-up Study: A Comparison of Violent and Non-Violent Re-Offenders and Non-Offenders

Abstract

As part of a more general follow-up study of men admitted to English special hospitals during the period 1961–65 and who left the hospitals before 1 January 1978, comparisons were made between those who subsequently were convicted of violent offences, those who offended non-violently, and those who did not offend at all. Pre-admission and post-discharge behaviour was examined and differences were found to exist between all three groups on a number of variables.