title: [Forensic aspects of schizophrenia].
abstract: Recent research has shown a clear association between schizophrenia and violent behaviour, which cannot be completely explained by co-morbid substance abuse or personality disorders. This increased risk for delinquent behaviour becomes apparent in acts of severe violent crime. Individuals who frequent the penal system often have a history of acute and chronic mental illness, as well as significant rates of co-morbidity; this includes alcohol and drug abuse, lack of motivation in therapy, poor insight regarding their illness, high rates of therapeutic non-compliance, as well as frequent, mostly short-term, contact with general psychiatry prior to forensic institutionalisation.      Forensic psychiatric research has developed assessment and treatment tools which are also of great practical importance to general psychiatry.
authors.affiliation: Medical University Innsbruck, Department of General and Social Psychiatry, Innsbruck, Austria. regina.prunnlechner@uki.at
authors.forename: Regina
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Prunnlechner
mesh_terms: D005555:Forensic Psychiatry; D006801:Humans; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000150:complications; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology; D014754:Violence / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology*