Am J Psychiatry 1990; 147:746-750
Copyright © 1990 by American Psychiatric Association
Violent crime arrest rates of White House Case subjects and matched control subjects
D Shore, CR Filson and DS Rae
Intramural Research Program, NIMH, Rockville, MD 20857.
White House Case subjects typically are schizophrenic patients who have
been psychotically preoccupied with a prominent political figure. The
authors report the arrest rates for murder, aggravated assault, other
assault, and robbery among 192 male White House Case subjects 20-59 years
old who were discharged from civil commitments in the early 1970s. These
rates were compared with those for the same crimes in a random matched
sample of arrested subjects and with the general population arrest rates.
When rates were covaried for prior violent crime arrests, White House Case
subjects with prior arrests had a significantly higher rate of total
posthospitalization violent crime arrests than the matched control sample.
