Criminality and Violence among the Mentally Disordered: The Stockholm Metropolitan Project

摘要: In recent years it has become apparent that mentally ill people are at increased risk of committing crimes violence. Most writing and research about crime mental disorder focused necessarily on the immediate problems which confront clinicians law makers - assessing managing future this important new book authors attempt to step back from these preoccupations describe criminality try identify complex chain factors cause it. As part their analysis they examine a unique cohort composed 15,117 persons born in Stockholm who were studied pregnancy age thirty. While conclude we still do not understand exactly how why with major disorders commit crimes, findings make valuable contribution ongoing debates health criminal justice policy practice.