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The studies collected here examine how paranoid delusions, fear, anger, and other clinical factors relate to violent behavior and judgments of dangerousness. One small case series found fear and defensive anger commonly accompanied delusions and some offenses, while a hospital-record study found diagnosis and delusions less influential than institutional progress and prior assaultiveness.
The article surveys research and case reports linking cannabis use, including synthetic cannabinoids, with psychotic experiences and other psychiatric symptoms. It summarizes longitudinal evidence associating regular or heavy cannabis use with increased psychosis risk, while emphasizing that observational findings leave uncertainty about causation and individual vulnerability.
The collection examines how homicide wounds and methods may vary across cases and victim-offender relationships. The cited research studies wounding patterns and weapon use, including injury, excessive wounding, and crime-scene indicators that may relate to intimacy or expressed emotion.
The review examines filicide, the killing of a child by a parent, and patterns discussed in the literature. It describes filicide and neonaticide, surveys proposed motives and clinical or situational factors, and discusses reported patterns while emphasizing that perpetrators and cases are heterogeneous.
Conduct disorder is described as a pattern of behavior that violates others’ rights or age-appropriate rules and norms. The resource outlines diagnostic symptoms and onset, associated risk factors and comorbid conditions, effects on functioning, differential diagnosis, and treatment approaches.
This collection surveys research on antisocial personality features and violence, including intimate-partner violence and severe offending. The cited studies examine how comorbidity, psychopathy, trauma, biological markers, and personality traits relate to different forms of aggression, and report that associations vary across samples and outcomes.
This overview discusses research linking ADHD, executive-function difficulties, impulsivity, and anger with antisocial or violent behavior. It cites studies and authors describing associations with later aggression, arrests, and other risky behaviors, while presenting these as research claims about risk patterns rather than outcomes for every person with ADHD.
