“Several psychiatric disorders have been associated with an increased risk of violent crime (eg, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder). However, not all phenotypes within and between psychiatric disorders may be associated with an increased risk of violence,” Hanna Sahlin, MSc, of Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, and colleagues wrote. “Because self-harm occurs in the context of many different psychiatric disorders, it could be used as a behavioral marker of an underlying vulnerability of emotional and behavioral dysregulation relevant to violent crime (eg, impulsive aggression and emotion regulation) across diagnoses.”
To examine associations between nonfatal self-harm and violent crime, researchers conducted a population-based longitudinal cohort study among all Swedish citizens aged 15 years and older (n = 1,850,252). Mean follow-up time was 8.1 years.
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