Risk of violent crime in individuals with epilepsy and traumatic brain injury: A 35-year Swedish population study

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Fazel, Seena ^a,b   Lichtenstein, Paul ^b   Grann, Martin ^b,c   Långström, Niklas ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c Swedish Prison and Probation Service   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARSON; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIME; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE REGISTRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROBBERY; SEXUAL CRIME; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SWEDEN; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VIOLENCE; BRAIN INJURY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

BRAIN INJURIES; CRIME; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SWEDEN; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84855170412     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001150     Document Type: Article

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