Criminal behavior of forensic and general psychiatric patients with schizophrenia: Are they different?

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica

Volumn 106, Issue SUPPL.S412, 2002, Pages 62-66

  Tengström, Anders ^a,b   Hodgins, S ^a,b  

^a Institut Philippe Pinel de Montreal   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Forensic psychiatry; Psychiatry LJ; Risk assessment; Schizophrenia; Violence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRIME; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STATISTICS;

ADULT; CRIME; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; PSYCHIATRY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 0347845336     PISSN: 0001690X     EISSN: 16000447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0447.106.s412.14.x     Document Type: Article

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