DANGEROUSNESS AND PSYCHIATRIC COMORBIDITY: VIOLENT RISK FACTORS
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.54695/dss.59.01.2440Keywords:
Assessment, Homicide, Suicide, Violence, Psychiatric comorbidity, Criminal risk.Abstract
Despite the criticism of certain dogmatic and moralising ‘thinkers’, the author indicates that
the use of modern scientific tools is now indispensable for assessing criminal risk. He reminds
us that about 10% of ‘ordinary’ homicides are committed by psychotic mentally sick people
and that there is a positive statistic correlation between homicide, suicidal ideation, attempted suicide and suicide. He criticises the artificial separation between criminological dangerousness and psychiatric dangerousness, as 90 to 95% of perpetrators of homicides at the time
of the crime present various mental disturbances. To close, the author proposes a new riskassessment scale, the ‘12-P’, which includes the main psychosocial and psychopathological
predictors related to the risk of physical assault (97 items).
