Mental illness and criminal violence.

doi:10.1007/s001270050214

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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

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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 p...

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Adult
Child
Child of Impaired Parents
Comorbidity
Female
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Humans
Mental Disorders
Pregnancy
Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects
Risk
Twin Studies as Topic
Violence

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