1. Subtypes of Severely Mentally Ill Violent Offenders in a Spanish Forensic Psychiatric Hospital
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Sheilagh Hodgins, Rosario Ferrer-Cascales, Miriam Sánchez-SanSegundo, Mar Pastor-Bravo, Jesús Herranz-Bellido, Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Psicología de la Salud, and Psicología de la Delincuencia, Psicocriminología y Ciencias Forenses (PSIDECRIMYCIF)
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medicine.medical_specialty ,education ,Violence ,Conduct disorder ,Pathology and Forensic Medicine ,mental disorders ,HCR-20 ,medicine ,Psychiatric hospital ,Psychiatry ,Life span ,Mentally ill ,SV [PCL] ,fungi ,Mental illness ,medicine.disease ,Forensic science ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Schizophrenia ,Personalidad, Evaluación y Tratamiento Psicológico ,Psicología Básica ,Pshychiatric Mental Health ,Psychology ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
Conduct disorder (CD) prior to age 15 identifies a subgroup of men with severe mental illness (SMI) who present a high risk for violence that persists across the life span. The present study examined male violent offenders with SMI in a forensic hospital in Spain, comparing those with SMI+CD and those without SMI-CD on the HCR-20 and PCL:SV. Violent offenders with SMI+CD obtained higher HCR-20 and PCL: SV total scores, and much higher H and factor 2 scores as compared to those without prior CD. Men with SMI+CD present a challenge to forensic psychiatric services.
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- 2014
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