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Schizophrenia, Substance Abuse, and Violent Crime

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Fazel, Seena·2009·JAMA

DOI 10.1001/jama.2009.675PMC PMC4905518

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CONTEXT: Persons with schizophrenia are thought to be at increased risk of committing violent crime 4 to 6 times the level of general population individuals without this disorder. However, risk estimates vary substantially across studies, and considerable uncertainty exists as to what mediates this elevated risk. Despite this uncertainty, current guidelines recommend that violence risk assessment should be conducted for all patients with schizophrenia. OBJECTIVE: To determine the risk of violent crime among patients diagnosed as having schizophrenia and the role of substance abuse in mediating this risk. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Longitudinal designs were used to link data from nationwide Swedish registers of hospital admissions and criminal convictions in 1973-2006. Risk of violent crime in patients after diagnosis of schizophrenia (n = 8003) was compared with that among general population controls (n = 80 025). Potential confounders (age, sex, income, and marital and immigrant status) and mediators (substance abuse comorbidity) were measured at baseline. To study familial confounding, we also investigated risk of violence among unaffected siblings (n = 8123) of patients with schizophrenia. Information on treatment was not available. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: Violent crime (any criminal conviction for homicide, assault, robbery, arson, any sexual offense, illegal threats, or intimidation). RESULTS: In patients with schizophrenia, 1054 (13.2%) had at least 1 violent offense compared with 4276 (5.3%) of general population controls (adjusted odds ratio [OR], 2.0; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.8-2.2). The risk was mostly confined to patients with substance abuse comorbidity (of whom 27.6% committed an offense), yielding an increased risk of violent crime among such patients (adjusted OR, 4.4; 95% CI, 3.9-5.0), whereas the risk increase was small in schizophrenia patients without substance abuse comorbidity (8.5% of whom had at least 1 violent offense; adjusted OR, 1.2; 95% CI, 1.1-1.4; P<.001 for interaction). The risk increase among those with substance abuse comorbidity was significantly less pronounced when unaffected siblings were used as controls (28.3% of those with schizophrenia had a violent offense compared with 17.9% of their unaffected siblings; adjusted OR, 1.8; 95% CI, 1.4-2.4; P<.001 for interaction), suggesting significant familial (genetic or early environmental) confounding of the association between schizophrenia and violence. CONCLUSIONS: Schizophrenia was associated with an increased risk of violent crime in this longitudinal study. This association was attenuated by adjustment for substance abuse, suggesting a mediating effect. The role of risk assessment, management, and treatment in individuals with comorbidity needs further examination.

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Authors: Fazel, S.
Affiliations: Warneford Hospital (GB)
Corresponding author: Fazel, Seena
ORCID: Fazel, Seena
Venue: JAMA
Publisher: American Medical Association (AMA)
Published: 2009-05-20
Volume: 301
Issue: 19
Pages: 2016
ISSN: 0002-9955 (ISSN-L)
0098-7484
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2009.675
PMC: PMC4905518
OpenAlex: W2073141569
Cited by: 726
References: 45
Citations by year: 2026: 36 · 2025: 22 · 2024: 37 · 2023: 24 · 2022: 45 · 2021: 25 · 2020: 38 · 2019: 46 · 2018: 48 · 2017: 73 · 2016: 32 · 2015: 49 · 2014: 49 · 2013: 50 · 2012: 55
FWCI: 53.88
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Locations: JAMA (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders: Wellcome Trust (095806)
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Crime Patterns and Interventions
Keywords: schizophrenia, violent crime, substance use comorbidity, violence risk, criminal conviction, homicide, assault, unaffected siblings, familial confounding, risk factors for violence, Sweden, hospitalization, criminal records, mental illness and crime, risk assessment guidelines, family history of schizophrenia, income, marital status
MeSH terms: Adult, Crime, Female, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Registries, Risk, Schizophrenia, Socioeconomic Factors, Sweden, Violence, Comorbidity, Substance-Related Disorders, Young Adult

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