Dissertation Information for Patricia Ann Brennan NAME: - Patricia Ann Brennan
DEGREE:
- Ph.D.
DISCIPLINE:
- [No Discipline Recorded]
SCHOOL:
- University of Southern California (USA) (1992)
ADVISORS: - None COMMITTEE MEMBERS: - None
MPACT Status: Incomplete - Not_Inspected
Title: Psychopathology and criminal violence in a birth cohort
Abstract: "The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between violence and psychopathology in an epidemiological context. Subjects were drawn from a total birth cohort of all individuals born between January 1, 1944 and December 31, 1947 in Denmark (N = 358,180). Due to the existence of highly accurate national registers, data were available on every arrest for violence and every hospitalization for mental illness that occurred for individuals in this cohort through the age of 44-47 years.
These data were utilized to assess whether a significant relationship exists between violence and psychiatric hospitalization, and whether this relationship differs across the diagnostic categories of schizophrenia, affective disorders, and organic brain syndromes. The effects of concomitant diagnoses of alcohol/drug abuse, gender, marital status and socioeconomic status were also examined. Results of this study reveal a significant relationship between psychotic disorders and criminal violence. The strength of the relationship was strongest for organic brain syndrome and weakest for affective disorder. Lower socioeconomic status, non-married marital status, and secondary diagnoses of alcohol and drug abuse were also found to be significant predictors of violence.
Age of onset for violence, and the relationship between the timing of arrests for criminal violence and the timing of hospital admissions for mental illness were also examined. Results suggest that psychotic individuals have a later age of onset for violence than individuals in the general population. Although this finding suggests that the course of illness may play a role in violent offending, there was no direct finding of an increase in violence around the time of psychiatric hospitalization for the individuals in this cohort."
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MPACT Scores for Patricia Ann Brennan A = 0
C = 2
A+C = 2
T = 0
G = 0
W = 0
TD = 0
TA = 0
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