@article{ref1,
title="The Camberwell Study of Crime and Schizophrenia",
journal="Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology",
year="1998",
author="Wessely, Simon",
volume="33",
number="Suppl 1",
pages="S24-8",
abstract="I report a population-based longitudinal study of all incident cases of schizophrenia (n = 538) in the London Borough of Camberwell between 1964 and 1984. The rates of criminal convictions are compared with those in a control sample representative of non-schizophrenic mental disorders matched for age, sex and period. The results show that women with schizophrenia have an increased rate of offending across all offence categories (rate ratio = 3.3). There is no overall increase for males, but a specific increase for violent convictions (rate ratio = 3.8). Looking at the risk of acquiring a first conviction, there is an independent but modest effect of schizophrenia (hazard ratio = 1.4), but the effects of gender, substance abuse, ethnicity and age at onset were more substantial.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0933-7954",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}