Abstract
A psychiatric and criminal records search was undertaken in young adult life for two groups of former child psychiatric patients: one given a diagnosis of ‘schizoid personality’ in childhood and the other, matched for sex, age, IQ and socio-economic background, given other diagnoses. The prevalence of schizophrenia in the ‘schizoid’ group was low but higher than in the controls and about ten times the expected population rate. The death rate from suicide was greatly raised. Adult criminality was higher than expected in bot groups but, while for men the rates were similar in ‘schizoid’ and control cases, ‘schizoid’ women wer more often and more seriously delinquent than their matched controls.
Résumé
Une recherche concernant l'état psychiatrique et des actes criminels a été entreprise chez des jeunes adultes appartenant à deux groupes pour lesquels un diagnostic psychiatrique avait été posé dans l'enfance. L'un avait eu un diagnostic de personnalité ‘schizoïde’ et l'aure apparié par le sexe. l'âge, le quotient intellectuel et l'environmennement socio-économique avait eu d'autres diagnostics Une prévalence de schizophrénes dans le groupe ‘schizoïde’ était faible et plus importance que dans le groupe contrôle et environ 10 fois supérieur en taux à la population normale. Le taux de mort par suicide était fortement élevé. La criminalité adulte était plus haute que celle attendue dans les deux groupes mais, tandis que pour les hommes le taux était semblable pour le groupe ‘schizoïde’ et le groupe contrôle, les femmes ‘chizoïdes’ étaient plus souvent et plus sérieusement délinquantes que celles du groupe contrôle.
Zusammenfassung
Die psychiatrischen und strafrechtlichen Dokumentationsdateien junger Erwachsener, die ehemals kinder- und jugendpsychiatrische Patienten waren, wurden untersucht, wobei eine Einteilung in zwei Gruppen erfolgte: Die erste Gruppe umfaßte ehemalige kinder- und jugendpsychiatrische Patienten, dei die Diagnose einer ‘schizoiden’ Persönlichkeit erhalten hatten. Die Kontrollgruppe umfaßte ehemalige kinder- und jugendpsychiatrische Patienten mit anderen Diagnosen, die für Geschlecht, Alter, IQ und sozioökonomischen Status parallelisiert wurden. Die Prävalenz von Schizophrenie in der ‘schizoiden’ Gruppe war niedfrig aber höher als in der Kontrollgruppe und zehnmal häufiger als der Erwartungswert in der Allgemeinbevölkerung. Die Suizidrate war stark erhöht. Die Kriminalitätsrate war in beiden Gruppen höher als erwartet, wobei eine Geschlechtsdifferenz bestand: Bei Männern waren die Raten beider Gruppen ähnlich, hingegen hatten ‘schizoide’ Frauen häufigere und schwerwiegendere Delike begangen als in der parallelisierten Kontrollgruppe.
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Wolff, S. Psychiatric morbidity and criminality in ‘schizoid’ children grouwn-up: A records survey. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 1, 214–221 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02094181
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