Multi-method Evaluation of the Management, Organisation and Staffing (MEMOS) in high security treatment services for people with Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder (DSPD) (October 2010)
Mental disorder and offending:
Men with a diagnosis of schizophrenia are between 4 and 8 times more likely to commit a violent offence
For women it is between 3 – 23x more likely
The link between schizophrenia and sexual offending is unclear
Some evidence that affective disorders are linked to violence particularly bipolar disorder; unclear for sexual offending
People diagnosed with ‘personality disorder’ are more likely to reoffend after hospital discharge than people with mental illness
People diagnosed with ‘personality disorder’ are more likely to commit violence, and the prevalence rate of ‘personality disorder’ is higher in people who have committed sexual offences (causality not inferred)
Anti-social, borderline and narcissistic and histrionic personality disorders are most prevalent….
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