Major Mental Disorders and Criminal Violence in a Danish Birth Cohort
Open Access
- 1 May 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of General Psychiatry
- Vol. 57 (5) , 494-500
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.57.5.494
Abstract
SEVERAL RECENT large-scale studies have determined that there is a relationship between mental disorders and violence.1-5 It has also been found that rates of violence differ across diagnostic categories, suggesting that it is essential to examine diagnostic conditions separately in relationship to risk for violent behavior.Keywords
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