Preventing crime by people with schizophrenic disorders: the role of psychiatric services

The British Journal of Psychiatry : the Journal of Mental Science
S Hodgins, R Müller-Isberner

Abstract

Knowledge of when and how to implement treatments to prevent criminal offending among people with schizophrenia is urgently needed. To identify opportunities for interventions to prevent offending among men with schizophrenic disorders by tracking their histories of offending and admissions to hospital. We examined 232 men with schizophrenic disorders discharged from forensic and general psychiatric hospitals. Data were collected from participants, family members and official records. More than three-quarters (77.8%) of the forensic patients had previously been admitted to general psychiatric services; 24.3% of the general psychiatric patients had a criminal record. Offences had been committed by 39.8% of the forensic patients and 10.8% of the general psychiatric patients before their first admission to general psychiatry, and after their first admission these 59 patients committed 195 non-violent and 59 violent offences. Subsequently, 49 of them committed serious violent offences that led to forensic hospital admission. The offenders were distinguished by a pervasive and stable pattern of antisocial behaviour evident from at least mid-adolescence. General psychiatry requires resources in order to prevent criminal offending amo...Continue Reading

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