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   Published online June 1992   
      
      
   Mental Disorder, Intellectual Deficiency, and Crime: Evidence From a Birth   
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   Sheilagh Hodgins, PhD   
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   Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1992;49(6):476-483. doi:10.1001/archpsyc.19   
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   ABSTRACT   
   * Studies of criminality among patients in psychiatric hospitals and of mental   
   disorder among incarcerated offenders have suggested an association between   
   the major mental disorders (schizophrenia and major affective disorders) and   
   crime. However, these    
   investigations are characterized by notable methodological weaknesses, and,   
   consequently, this conclusion has remained tentative. Little is known about   
   the criminality of intellectually handicapped people. The present study   
   examined the relationship    
   between crime and mental disorder and crime and intellectual deficiency in an   
   unselected Swedish birth cohort followed up to age 30 years. It was found that   
   men with major mental disorders were 21/2 times more likely than men with no   
   disorder or handicap    
   to be registered for a criminal offense and four times more likely to be   
   registered for a violent offense. Women with major disorders were five times   
   more likely than women with no disorder or handicap to be registered for an   
   offense and 27 times more    
   likely to be registered for a violent offense. These subjects committed many   
   serious offenses throughout their lives. The criminal behavior in over half   
   these cases appeared before the age of 18 years. Intellectually handicapped   
   men were three times more    
   likely to offend than men with no disorder or handicap and five times more   
   likely to commit a violent offense. Intellectually handicapped women were   
   almost four times more likely to offend than women with no disorder or   
   handicap and 25 times more likely    
   to commit a violent offense. The results of this investigation confirm and   
   extend previous findings indicating that individuals with major mental   
   disorders and those with intellectual handicaps are at increased risk for   
   offending and for violent    
   offending. However, in the United States, where rates of crime overall and   
   crime by substance abusers are very high, the mentally disordered and   
   intellectually handicapped would account for only a small proportion of these   
   offenses.   
      
      
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