Am J Psychiatry 1994; 151:436-438
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Psychiatric disorders and homicide recidivism

J Tiihonen and P Hakola
University of Kuopio, Department of Forensic Psychiatry, Niuvanniemi Hospital, Finland.

There are no firm epidemiologic data concerning psychiatric disorders associated with homicide recidivism. The authors studied all homicide recidivists who were incarcerated in Finnish prisons or high-security hospitals and had committed their last offense during the 3-year period July 1, 1988-June 30, 1991. All recidivists (13 subjects) could be considered to suffer from either severe alcoholism combined with personality disorder (N = 11, 85%) or from schizophrenia (N = 2, 15%).

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