Psychiatric Illnesses in the Families of Female Criminals: A Study of 288 First-Degree Relatives
- 1 June 1973
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 122 (571), 697-703
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.122.6.697
Abstract
Sociopathy, alcoholism, and drug dependence have been shown to be the only psychiatric disorders more frequent among convicted male felons than in the general population (4, 5). In these studies, sociopathy, regardless of other disorders, was found in nearly 80 per cent. An increased prevalence of sociopathy, alcoholism, drug dependence, and hysteria, or Briquet's Syndrome (3), was found among the first-degree relatives of these felons; hysteria (Briquet's Syndrome) among the female relatives and the other disorders predominantly among the male relatives. Overall, 44 per cent of the male felons' first-degree relatives received a psychiatric diagnosis (6).Keywords
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