Violent crime and dimensions of delusion: A comparative study of criminal and noncriminal delusional patients

Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 225-231

  Teixeira, Eduardo Henrique ^a,c   Dalgalarrondo, Paulo ^b  

^a PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^c NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIME; DELUSION; DELUSIONAL DISORDER; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT; RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; BRAZIL; COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; CRIME; CULTURE; DELUSIONS; FEAR; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRISONERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIA, PARANOID; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SECURITY MEASURES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 67650869281     PISSN: 10936793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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