Radovic Susanna, Höglund Pontus
Centre for Ethics, Law and Mental Health, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Forensic Psychiatry, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Sweden.
Int J Law Psychiatry. 2014 Mar-Apr;37(2):142-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2013.11.011. Epub 2013 Dec 4.
The alleged relation between mental disorder and violent criminal behaviour has been investigated mainly from an epidemiological perspective. Population-based registry studies have shown that violence occurs more frequently among people with mental disorders, like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, compared with control subjects, but that the increased risk is largely mediated by drug abuse and socio-economic deprivation. The aim of this study was to explore how patients who have committed violent or sexual crimes and have been sentenced to forensic psychiatric care by a Swedish court of law construed their criminal actions in terms of causes. Forty-six participants from six different Swedish forensic psychiatric clinics were included in the study. A semi-structured interview study was conducted and the data was analysed using a thematic analysis. A large group of the participants did not believe that the mental disorder played any role in the criminal events. Contributing causes that were mentioned were drug abuse and social factors.
精神障碍与暴力犯罪行为之间所谓的关系主要是从流行病学角度进行研究的。基于人群的登记研究表明，与对照组相比，精神分裂症和双相情感障碍等精神障碍患者中暴力行为更为频发，但这种风险增加在很大程度上是由药物滥用和社会经济贫困介导的。本研究的目的是探讨那些实施了暴力或性犯罪并被瑞典法院判处法医精神科护理的患者如何从原因方面解释他们的犯罪行为。来自瑞典六个不同法医精神科诊所的46名参与者被纳入研究。进行了一项半结构化访谈研究，并使用主题分析对数据进行了分析。一大群参与者不认为精神障碍在犯罪事件中起任何作用。提到的促成因素是药物滥用和社会因素。
