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Serious criminal offending and mental disorder: Case linkage study
Abstract
Background: A relationship exists between mental disorder and offending behaviours but the nature and extent of the association remains in doubt. Method: Those convicted in the higher courts of Victoria between 1993 and 1995 had their pyschiatric history explored by case linkage to a register listing virtually all contacts with the public psychiatric services. Results: Prior psychiatric contact was found in 25% of offenders, but the personality disorder and substance misuse accounted for much of this relationship. Schizophrenia and affective disorders were also over-represented, particularly those with coexisting substance misuse. Conclusions: The increased offending in schizophrenia and affective illness is modest and may often be mediated by coexisting substance misuse. The risk of a serious crime being committed by someone with a major mental illness is small and does not justify subjecting them, as a group, to either increased institutional containment or greater coercion.
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- Wallace, C., Mullen, P. E., Burgess, P., Palmer, S., Ruschena, D., & Browne, C.
- Venue
- British Journal of Psychiatry
- Publisher
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Published
- 1998-06
- Volume
- 172
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 477-484
- ISSN
- 0007-1250 (ISSN-L)
- 1472-1465
- OpenAlex
- W2150913981
- Cited by
- 441
- References
- 19
- FWCI
- 30.22
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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