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Table 1 Prevalence of selected diagnostic categories in reports of forensic evaluations of criminal responsibility of cases regarding violent crime, n = 500

From: Are symptoms assessed differently for schizophrenia and other psychoses in legal insanity evaluations of violent crimes?

Diagnostic categories

 

Legal insanity

Not responsible for other causes

No conclusion

Total

  

Yes

No

   

Schizophrenia

n (%)

84 (84.0)

16 (16.0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

100 (100)

    F20.0 Paranoid

n (%)

72 (85.7)

12 (14.3)

0 (0)

0 (0)

84 (100)

    F20.1 Hebephrenic

n (%)

5 (71.4)

2 (28.6)

0 (0)

0 (0)

7 (100)

    F20.3 Undifferentiated

n (%)

5 (71.4)

2 (28.6)

0 (0)

0 (0)

7 (100)

    F20.9 Unspecified

n (%)

2 (100)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

2 (100)

Other psychotic disorders

n (%)

27 (55.1)

22 (44.9)

0 (0)

0 (0)

49 (100)

    F21 Schizotypal disorders

n (%)

1 (20.0)

4 (80.0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

5 (100)

    F22.0 Paranoid psychosis

n (%)

14 (66.7)

7 (33.3)

0 (0)

0 (0)

21 (100)

    F2- Other psychosesa

n (%)

1 (12.5)

7 (87.5)

0 (0)

0 (0)

8 (100)

    F3- Affective psychosisb

n (%)

11 (73.3)

4 (26.7)

0 (0)

0 (0)

15 (100)

SIPDc

n (%)

0 (0)

41 (97.6)

1e (2.4)

0 (0)

42 (100)

Other diagnosesd

n (%)

6f (2.4)

231 (92.4)

9 g (3.6)

4 h (1.6)

250 (100)

No diagnosis

n (%)

1i (1.7)

48 (81.4)

1 (1.7)

9 (15.2)

59 (100)

Total

 

118 (23.6)

358 (71.6)

11 (2.2)

13 (2.6)

500 (100)

  1. aF23.2 (1), F23.3 (1), F28 (1), F29 (5). bF25 (10), F31.2 (4), F32.3 (1). cSubstance-induced psychotic disorder, F10.5 (1), F12.5 (4), F15.5 (5), F19.5 (31), F19.7 (1). dAll other diagnostic categories than psychosis in the International Classification of Diseases, Revision 10. eStrong disturbance of consciousness (automatism): F19.5. fF06.7, F11.25, F15.6, F31.6, F32.2, F84.9. gSevere mental retardation: F70, F71. hF19.21, F60.2, F60.9. iConcluding with a probable schizophrenia diagnosis, but not confirmed