Objectives of the study and background Schizophrenia is a complex disease that affects 1%
of the population. This disease has a considerable impact not only on patients' health and …

Studies of birth cohorts show evidence of greater risk of violence among patients with
schizophrenia compared to the general population. However, the contribution of …

Offenders with mental illness have attracted substantial attention over the recent years,
given their prevalence and poor outcomes. A number of interventions have been developed …

In public perception, mental illness and violence remain inextricably intertwined, and much
of the stigma associated with mental illness may be due to a tendency to conflate mental …

Crime is an expensive aspect of society, and each year huge amounts of public money are
spent on the courts, police, probation services, and prisons, while the human costs in terms …

Peters, RH, Wexler, HK, & Lurigio, AJ (2015). Co-occurring substance use and mental
disorders in the criminal justice system: A new frontier of clinical practice and research …

Serine/threonine protein kinase v-akt murine thymoma viral oncogene homolog (Akt) is one
of the survival kinases with multiple biological functions in the brain and throughout the …

Linear statistical methods may not be suited to the understanding of psychiatric phenomena
such as aggression due to their complexity and multifactorial origins. Here, the application of …

BACKGROUND: Comorbidity between schizophrenia and psychopathy has been noted in
violent patients in forensic settings. Both disorders are characterized by deficits in …

Background There is a broad literature suggesting that cognitive difficulties are associated
with violence across a variety of groups. Although neurocognitive and social cognitive …