Profile of Forensic Patients with Schizophrenia: Experience of the University Psychiatric Hospital Arrazi Salé

Abstract

Schizophrenia is a chronic mental pathology with polymorphous symptoms, disabling on the emotional, relational, behavioral and social levels. In some cases, it can increase the risk of committing a forensic act. International studies have shown that patients with severe mental disorders in general, and patients with schizophrenia in particular, are more likely to commit violent acts than the general population and that the increased risk of violence is related to both clinical/biological and environmental/sociological factors. The present study, carried out in the Ar-razi hospital in Salé, has the following aim to study the socio-demographic, clinical and criminological forensic patients, to highlight the legal peculiarities of forensic patients, look for predictors of dangerousness and develop preventive means crossing the violent acts.