The public’s perspective regarding sanctioning offenders, especially violent and nonviolent, tend to support either a rehabilitative or balanced approach to justice. This study aims to better understand perspectives on sanctioning violent and nonviolent mental health offenders. We draw on a survey of 575 college students from a large university in the south. We assess public perceptions of whether successful reform is possible for violent and nonviolent mental health offenders, if they are willing to work to reform, and if they deserve treatment. The results highlighted a more rehabilitative attitude towards nonviolent mental health offenders and a balanced approaach to violent mental health offenders. These results suggest the importance of considering alternative approaches to sanctioning mental health offenders, including the use of crisis intervention teams and mental health courts rather than a strict adherence to punitive measures.

公众对于制裁罪犯，特别是暴力和非暴力罪犯的观点倾向于支持采取矫正或平衡的司法手段。这项研究旨在更好地理解制裁暴力和非暴力精神卫生罪犯的观点。我们对南部一所大型大学的575名大学生进行了调查。我们评估公众对于暴力和非暴力精神卫生罪犯是否愿意进行改革以及是否应得到治疗的成功改革的看法。结果表明，对非暴力精神卫生罪犯的态度更为康复，对暴力精神卫生罪犯的态度较为均衡。这些结果表明，考虑采用其他方法制裁精神卫生罪犯的重要性，