Mentally-ill patients charged with homicide

Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 223-225

  Farooq, Saeed ^c   Deeba, Farah ^a   Ashfaque, Mohammad ^b   Iqbal, Mohammad ^c  

^a Department of Psychiatry   (Pakistan)

^b DHQ Hospital   (Pakistan)

^c LADY READING HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Forensic psychiatry; Homicide; Psychoses; Psychotic disorders; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE DURATION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; PAKISTAN; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SELECTION; PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL ASPECT; VICTIM;

ADULT; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTALLY ILL PERSONS; PAKISTAN; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0038057862     PISSN: 1022386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Hodgins A, Mental disorder, intellectual deficiency and crime: evidence from a birth cohort. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1992;49:476-83.
2. Mullen PE. A re-assessment of the link between mental disorder and violent behavior, and its implications for clinical practice. Aust N Z Psychiatry 1997;31:3-11.
3. Wessely S. The epidemiology of crime, violence and schizophrenia. Br J Psychiatry 1997; 170 (suppl. 32): 8-11.
4. Brennan P, Mednick S, Hodgins S. Major mental disorders and criminal violence in a Danish birth cohort. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2000; 57:494-500.
5. Tiihonen J, Isohanni M, Rasanen P, Koiranen M, Moring J. Specific major mental disorders and criminality: a 26-year prospective study of the 1966 Northern Finland birth cohort. Am J Psychiatry 1997;154:840-5.
6. Swanson JW, Holzer CE, Ganju VK, Jono RT. Violence and psychiatric disorder in the community: evidence from the epidemiologic catchment area surveys. Hosp Community Psychiatry 1990;41: 761-70.
7. Munro E, Rumgay J. Role of risk assessment in reducing homicides by people with mental illness. Br J Psychiatry 2000;176:116-20.
8. Taylor PJ, Gunn J. Homicides by people with mental illness: Br J Psychiatry 1999;174:9-14.
9. Eastman N. The mental health (patients in the community) act 1995. Br J Psychiatry 1997;170:492-6.
10. Steadman H, Monahan J, Appelbaum P. Designing a new generation in risk assessment. In: Monahan J, Steadman H, (edi). Violence and mental disorder. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1996: 297-318.
11. Wallace C, Mullen P, Burgess P, Ruschena D, Browne C. Serious criminal offending and mental disorder: case linkage study. Br J Psychiatry 1998;172:477-84.
12. Milton J, Amin S, Singh SP, Harrison G, Jones P, Croudace T, et al. Aggressive incidents in first-episode psychosis. Br J Psychiatry 2001;178:433-40.
13. Eronen M, Tiihonen J, Hakola P. Schizophrenia and homicidal behavior. Schizophr Bull 1996;22:83-9.
14. Ijaz-ur-Rehman C, Saeed K, Mubashar SS. Prevalence of personality disorder in a tertiary care psychiatric outpatient population. J Coll Physicians Surg Pak 2000;10:302-5.
15. Appelbaum P, Robbins P, Monaham J. Violence and delusions: data from the Mac Arthur violence risk assessment study. Am J Psychiatry 2000;157:566-72.