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Mental illness and criminal violence.
Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology - 1 Dec 1998
Tehrani J A, Brennan P A, Hodgins S, Mednick S A
Abstract excerpt
This article examines the relationship between criminal violence and mental illness. Our data suggest that mentally ill persons tend to have an increased risk for committing violent offenses, and that the violent offending by these individuals tends to be recidivistic. Our findings suggest that parents who have both committed violent offenses and experienced a psychiatric hospitalization increase the risk of...
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