Criminality and Violence among the Mentally Disordered by She... - 9780521580731

Criminality and Violence among the Mentally DisorderedThe Stockholm Metropolitan Project\nAuthor(s): Sheilagh Hodgins, Carl-Gunnar Janson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521580731, 978-0521580731\nSynopsis\nIn recent years it has become apparent that mentally ill people are at increased risk of committing crimes of violence. Most writing and research about crime and mental disorder has focused necessarily on the immediate problems which confront clinicians and law makers - assessing and managing the future risk of violence. In this important new book the authors attempt to step back from these immediate preoccupations and describe the criminality of the mentally ill and try to identify the complex chain of factors which cause it. As part of their analysis they examine a unique cohort composed of 15,117 persons born in Stockholm who were studied from pregnancy to the age of thirty. While they .