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Forensic psychology

the proposed inverse relationship between the number of psychiatric hospital beds and the size of the prison population.

In forensic psychology, Penrose's law refers to the proposed inverse relationship between the number of psychiatric hospital beds and the size of the prison population. This meaning comes from Penrose (1939) in British Journal of Medical Psychology.[1]

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  1. Penrose, L. S. (1939). Mental Disease and Crime: Outline of a Comparative Study of European Statistics. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 18(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8341.1939.tb00704.x

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