Note
"Prepared for Re-Inventing Criminal Justice: The Fifth National Symposium, Montreal, QC, Canada, January 2013".
Summary
"While many studies have identified an apparent link between mental illness and both violence and recidivism, other research has found that serious mental illness (primarily schizophrenia and other psychoses) alone is not significantly predictive of criminal behaviour. The more important factors are antisocial personality, psychopathy, neuro-cognitive brain impairments and substance abuse, as well as having antisocial associates and living in a chaotic and antisocial environment with few positive social supports"--Page 1.