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Homicide by schizophrenic patients in Israel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

A. Valevski ,
I. Averbuch ,
M. Radwan ,
S. Gur ,
B. Spivak ,
I. Modai  and
A. Weizman
A. Valevski
Affiliation:
Geha Psychiatric Hospital, Tel Aviv UniversityTel Aviv, Israel Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petah Tiqva, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv UniversityTel Aviv, Israel
I. Averbuch
Affiliation:
Gan Meged Hospital Hod Hasharon, Israel
M. Radwan
Affiliation:
Geha Psychiatric Hospital, Tel Aviv UniversityTel Aviv, Israel
S. Gur
Affiliation:
Geha Psychiatric Hospital, Tel Aviv UniversityTel Aviv, Israel
B. Spivak
Affiliation:
Geha Psychiatric Hospital, Tel Aviv UniversityTel Aviv, Israel
I. Modai
Affiliation:
Geha Psychiatric Hospital, Tel Aviv UniversityTel Aviv, Israel
A. Weizman
Affiliation:
Geha Psychiatric Hospital, Tel Aviv UniversityTel Aviv, Israel Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petah Tiqva, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv UniversityTel Aviv, Israel
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Summary

Thirty-three schizophrenic inpatients aged 45.3 ± 13.5 years who had been found not guilty of homicide by reason of insanity were compared with 28 schizophrenic patients matched for age, sex and duration of disease who had not committed any crime. Statistical analysis revealed a high rate in the study group of individual factors associated with aggression, such as alcohol abuse, previous contact with the police, aggressive behavior and threats (P < 0.05). Significantly more of them were also immigrants (P < 0.05). There was no between-group difference in familial factors. These findings support earlier studies indicating that schizophrenic patients with the profile of alcoholism, aggressiveness and foreign country of origin are at high risk of homicidal behavior.

Keywords

aggressionhomicideschizophreniaviolence
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European Psychiatry , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , April 1999 , pp. 89 - 92
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Copyright © Elsevier, Paris 1999

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