title: [The impact of socioeconomic and sociodemographic factors on the criminal behavior of patients with a psychotic disorder].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The impact of socioeconomic and demographic factors on the criminal behavior of patients with a psychotic disorder was evaluated.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study included 70 psychotic men hospitalized in the forensic psychiatry unit of the Bakirköy State Hospital for Psychiatric and Neurological Diseases for compulsory treatment who were compared to 70 psychotic disorder cases with no criminal history hospitalized in the acute wards in the same hospital. Socioeconomic and sociodemographic data were collected and statistical evaluations were made.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The vast majority of all the patients (90.7%) in both groups were diagnosed with schizophrenia. The forensic group was significantly less educated than the control group (7.99+/-3.81 years vs. 9.37+/-3.62 years, P<0.05). More than 50% of the cases in both groups were never married ; when considering divorced and widowed patients together with these unmarried patients, the percentage rose to 83%. Fewer forensic cases lived in urban areas than did control cases (50% vs. 84.3%). Logistic regression analysis highlighted a relationship between unemployment and the lack of social insurance to the criminal behaviour of the forensic group. Of those in the forensic group, 48.6% had no social insurance, whereas only 15.7% of the control group had none.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The data suggested that unemployment and the lack of social insurance are 2 independent variables that may contribute to the probability that patients with a psychotic disorder will engage in criminal behavior.
authors.affiliation: Bakirköy Ruh Sağliği ve Hastaliklari Eğitim ve Araştirma Hastanesi, Adli Psikiyatri Birimi, Istanbul, Turkey. fatihoncu@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Fatih
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Oncü
authors.forename: Mustafa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sercan
authors.forename: Can
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ger
authors.forename: Rabia
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bilici
authors.forename: Cenk
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ural
authors.forename: Niyazi
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Uygur
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003415:Crime; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014421:Turkey / Q000453:epidemiology; D014478:Unemployment