A Forensic Psychiatric Study for Substance-Related Offenders / 대한법의학회지
Korean Journal of Legal Medicine
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: 6-11, 2001.
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in Korean
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ABSTRACT
OBJECT This study examined the demographic characteristics, abused substance types, comorbid psychiatric diagnosis and associated crimes of substance-related offenders. METHOD:
We surveyed 205 offenders of substance-related crime from court.RESULT:
Substance-related offenders were all men and most of them were unemployed, living alone in the major city and mean age was 27.9+/-5.77years. 78.5% frequently abused inhalants like adhesives and 17.1% abused the methamphetamine. They violated the 1 or more times and the classification of crimes was violence, rape and rape-injury, larceny, arson. Substance-related offenders had comorbid psychiatric disorder ; 26 of them had personality disorder, 23 had mood disorder and 13 had psychotic disorder. Mean hospital day was 14.8+/-6.55 months.CONCLUSION:
Substance-related offenders were young single men without a job living major city. They had comorbid psychiatric disorder and high risk to commit crime.
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Main subject:
Personality Disorders
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Psychotic Disorders
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Rape
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Violence
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Adhesives
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Classification
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Mood Disorders
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Crime
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Criminals
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Firesetting Behavior
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
Limits:
Humans
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Male
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Korean Journal of Legal Medicine
Year:
2001
Type:
Article
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