Comparative study of aggression – dangerousness on patients with schizophrenia

  • Ntounas, Petros
  • Ντούνας, Πέτρος
Publication date
January 2019
Publisher
National Documentation Centre (EKT)

Abstract

Schizophrenia is a serious chronic mental disorder, with disordered thinking, delusional ideas, hallucinations, marked anxiety, bizarre behavior and suicidal tendencies. Its causes are unknown, but hereditary factors and neurobiological imbalances in brain chemistry can increase the person's vulnerability or predisposition to trigger psychotic episodes. Existing studies on schizophrenia from the fields of psychiatry and forensic psychiatry suggest that schizophrenia is an important risk factor for violence or for crime commission. Its association with crime has been underlined in Greek, but mainly in foreign scientific literature, indicating a strong association with unmarried men, who have poor compliance with medication, co-morbidity and...

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