Psychiatric morbidity in murder and attempted murder crime convicts: A Turkey study

Forensic Science International

Volumn 175, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 107-112

  Kugu, N ^a   Akyuz, G ^a   Dogan, O ^a  

^a CUMHURIYET UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Attempted homicide; Convicts; Homicide; Prevalence; Prison; Psychiatric disorders

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIME; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MORBIDITY; OFFENDER; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISON; PSYCHOPATHY; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

EID: 38849189320     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2007.05.016     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Coid J.W. How many psychiatric patients in prison?. Br. J. Psychiatry 145 (1984) 78-86
2. Joukamaa M. Psychiatric morbidity among Finnish prisoners with special reference to socio-demographic factors: results of the Health Survey of Finnish Prisoners (Wattu Project). Forensic Sci. Int. 73 (1995) 85-91
3. Bland R.C., Newman S.C., Thompson A.H., and Dyck R.J. Psychiatric disorders in the population and in prisoners. Int. J. Law Psychiatry 21 (1998) 273-279
4. Lamb H.R., and Weinberger L.E. Persons with severe mental illness in jails and prisons: a review. Psychiatry Serv. 49 (1998) 483-492
5. Coid J., Bebbington P., Jenkins R., Brugha T., Lewis G., Farrell M., and Singleton N. The national survey of psychiatric morbidity among prisoners and the future of prison healthcare. Med. Sci. Law 42 (2002) 245-250
6. Bland R.C., Newman S.C., Dyck R.J., and Orn H. Prevalence of psychiatric disorders and suicide attempts in a prison population. Can. J. Psychiatry 35 (1990) 407-413
7. Gunn J., Maden A., and Swinton M. Treatment needs of prisoners with psychiatric disorders. Br. Med. J. 303 (1991) 338-341
8. Watzke S., Ullrich S., and Marneros A. Gender and violence-related prevalence of mental disorders in prisoners. Eur. Arch. Psychiatry Clin. Neurosci. 256 (2006) 414-421
9. Fazel S., and Grann M. Psychiatric morbidity among homicide offenders: a Swedish population study. Am. J. Psychiatry 161 (2004) 2129-2131
10. Koh K.G.W., Gwee K.P., and Chan Y.H. Psychiatric aspects of homicide in Singapore: a five-year review (1997-2001). Singapore Med. J. 47 (2006) 297-304
11. Eronen M., Hakola P., and Tiihonen J. Mental disorders and homicidal behaviour in Finland. Arch. Gen. Psychiatry 53 (1996) 497-501
12. Schanda H., Knecht G., Schreinzer D., Stompe T.H., Ortwein-Swoboda G., and Waldhoer T.H. Homicide and major mental disorders: a 25-year study. Acta Psychiatry Scand. 110 (2004) 98-107
13. Cote G., and Hodgins S. The prevalence of major mental disorders among homicide offenders. Int. J. Law Psychiatry 15 (1992) 89-99
14. Taylor P.J., and Gunn J.C. Violence and psychosis I: risk of violence among psychotic men. Br. Med. J. 288 (1984) 1945-1949
15. Agbahowe S., Ohaeri J., Ogunlesi A., and Osahon R. Prevalence of psychiatry morbidity among convicted inmates in a Nigerian prison community. East Afr. Med. J. 75 (1998) 19-26
16. Ghubash R., and El-Rufaie O. Psychiatric morbidity among sentenced male prisoners in Dubai: transcultural perspectives. J. Forensic Psychiatry 8 (1997) 440-446
17. Fido A., and Al-Labally M. Presence of psychiatric morbidity in prison population in Kuwait. Ann. Clin. Psychiatry 5 (1993) 107-110
18. Saatcioglu O., Turkcan S., Yesilbursa D., Isikli M., and Uygur N. Depression in a prison population: a retrospective study (in Turkish). Turk Psikiyatri Derg. 8 (1997) 125-130
19. Soysal H. Manual of Forensic Psychiatry (2005), Roman's Yayinlari, Istanbul (in Turkish)
20. First M.B., Spitzer R.L., Gibbon M., and Williams J.B.W. Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Clinical Version (SCID-I/CV) (1997), American Psychiatric Press, Washington, DC
21. Ozkurkcugil A., Aydemir O., Yildiz M., Esen Danaci{dotless} A., and Koroglu E. The reliability and adaptation to Turkish of structured clinical interview for DSM-IV Axis-I disorders (in Turkish). Ilac ve Tedavi Dergisi 12 (1999) 233-236
22. Skodol A.E., Rosnick L., and Kellman D. Development of a procedure for validating Structured Assessments of Axis II. In: Oldham J.M. (Ed). Personality Disorders, New Perspectives in Diagnosis (1990), American Psychiatric Press, Washington, DC 41-70
23. Spitzer R.L. Psychiatric diagnosis: are clinicians still necessary?. Compr. Psychiatry 24 (1983) 399-411
24. Skodol A.E., Rosnick L., and Kellman D. Validating structured DSM-III-R personality disorder assessment with longitudinal data. Am. J. Psychiatry 145 (1988) 1297-1299
25. Coskunol H., Bagdiken I., and Sorias S. The Reliability in Personality Disorders of SCID-II (Turkish version) vol. 28 (1992), Congress of National Psychiatry, Ankara (in Turkish)
26. Masle L.M., Goreta M., and Jukic V. The comparison of forensic-psychiatric traits between female and male perpetrators of murder or attempted murder. Coll. Antropol. 24 (2000) 91-99
27. Lindqvist P. Violence Against a Person, the Role of Mental Disorder and Abuse (1989), Umea University Press, Umea
28. Gottlieb P., Gabrielsen G., and Kramp P. Psychotic homicide in Copenhagen from 1959 to 1983. Acta Psychiatry Scand. 76 (1987) 285-292
29. Petursson H., and Gudjonsson G.H. Psychiatric aspects of homicide. Acta Psychiatry Scand. 64 (1981) 363-372
30. Dogan O., Gulmez H., Ketenoglu C., Kilickap Z., Ozbek H., Akyuz G., Kaya B., Onder Z., and Ozkurkcugil A. Epidemiology of Psychiatric Disorders (1995), Dilek Press, Sivas (in Turkish)
31. Karaer S., Kugu N., Dogan O., and Akyuz G. Alcohol abuse and dependence in center of Sivas: epidemiology association with the sociodemographical variables and axis I comorbidity in Turkish). Yeni Symp. 41 (2003) 131-142
32. Teplin L.A. Psychiatric and substance abuse disorders among male urban jail detainees. Am. J. Public Health 84 (1994) 290-293
33. Cote G., and Hodgins S. Co-occuring mental disorders among criminal offenders. Bull. Am. Acad. Psychiatry Law 18 (1990) 271-281
34. Herman H., McGorry P., Mills J., and Singh B. Hidden severe psychiatric morbidity in sentenced inmates: an Australian study. Am. J. Psychiatry 148 (1991) 236-239
35. Fazel S., and Danesh J. Serious mental disorder in 23,000 prisoners: a systematic review of 62 surveys. Lancet 359 (2002) 545-550
36. Coid J., Kahtan N., Gault S., and Jarman B. Patients with personality disorder admitted to secure forensic psychiatry services. Br. J. Psychiatry 175 (1999) 528-536
37. Hodgins S., and Cote G. Major mental disorder and antisocial personality disorder: a criminal combination. Bull. Am. Acad. Psychiatry Law 21 (1993) 155-160
38. Holmberg M.B. Longitudinal studies of drug abuse in a fifteen-year-old population. Acta Psychiatry Scand. 16 (1985) 129-136
39. Lewis C.E., Cloninger C.R., and Pais J. Alcoholism, antisocial personality and drug use in a criminal population. Alcohol Alcohol 18 (1983) 53-60
40. Regier D.A., Farmer M.E., Rae D.S., Lock B.Z., Keith S.J., Judd L.L., and Goodwin F.K. Comorbidity of mental disorders with alcohol and drug abuse. JAMA 264 (1990) 2511-2518
41. Tiihonen J., and Hakola P. Psychiatric disorders and homicide recidivism. Am. J. Psychiatry 151 (1994) 436-438
42. Drake R.E., and Wallach M.A. Substance abuse among the chronically mentally ill. Hosp. Comm. Psychiatry 40 (1989) 1041-1046
43. Cote G., Lesage A., Chawky N., and Loyer M. Clinical specificity of prison inmates with severe mental disorders. Br. J. Psychiatry 170 (1997) 571-577