A Study of Criminal Behaviour in Discharged Male Psychiatric Patients

1 October 1983

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Medicine, Science and the Law

Vol. 23 (4) , 279-282
https://doi.org/10.1177/002580248302300410

Abstract

A retrospective study was carried out on 78 men without previous convictions, who had had at least one admission to a psychiatric hospital of not less than 3 months before the age of 30. The subsequent conviction rate of these men was determined and found to be comparable to that of men of the same age in the general population. The significance of these findings is discussed.

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