Inpatient violence: trait and state.
This study compared patients who showed persistent violence, transient violence and no violence. The presence of neurological abnormalities was found to be the factor that differentiated most clearly among the three groups. The persistently violent patients, in addition to showing significantly more neurological abnormalities, also evidenced a more disturbed family background. Both violent groups had a higher incidence of violent crime prior to hospitalization than the nonviolent controls. A logistic regression model simultaneously relating the effects of six factors on violent behavior was developed and used to predict violent group membership.
Manhattan Psychiatric Center, New York University, Orangeburg.
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Krakowski
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Convit
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Jaeger
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Lin
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Volavka
D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D003415:Crime; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000235:genetics / Q000523:psychology*; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000517:prevention & control; D012926:Social Control, Formal; D014754:Violence