Clozapine Treatment and Offending: A Within-Subject Study of Patients With Psychotic Disorders in Sweden

Clozapine treatment may have beneficial effects on behavioral outcomes in psychotic disorders, including violent offending. Although clozapine and other antipsychotics have been linked to lower levels of violent behavior, these have been primarily in small selected samples, and population-based estimates have been limited and imprecise. We aimed to assess the effect of clozapine treatment on the rate of violent and nonviolent offending. We...