ArticleSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2014
Bipolar disorder and criminal offending: a data linkage study.
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- Gender differences in sociodemographic, clinical characteristics, and psychopharmacological treatments among forensic ınpatients with serious mental ıllness in Türkiye.International journal of legal medicine · 2026Observational
- Does Mental Illness Impact the Incidence of Crime and Victimisation among Young People?Psychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law · 2017Article
- Criminal typology of veterans entering substance abuse treatment.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2015Article
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Abstract
purposeThe current study explored criminal offending among people diagnosed with bipolar disorder with and without comorbid substance use and compared this with a community sample with no history of bipolar disorder.
methodsA case-linkage design was used to compare patterns of officially recorded criminal offending between 1,076 people with bipolar disorder drawn from a state-wide psychiatric case register with a community comparison group.
resultsThose with bipolar disorder were significantly more likely than community members to be charged with, convicted of, and be found guilty of, violent, non-violent and intermediate level criminal offences. Those with a comorbid substance use disorder were two times more likely than those without a substance use disorder to offend; both groups had a significantly higher chance of offending than the community sample. Females with bipolar disorder were significantly more likely to have been convicted of violent offences, irrespective of substance use. Significant interactions were found between bipolar disorder and substance use for males and females with respect to violent offending and for males with respect to non-violent offending.
conclusionsThere is a statistically significant association between bipolar disorder and the likelihood of having a criminal history. Co-occurring substance use differentially impacts on the likelihood of criminal offending for males and females.
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