To say that mental health and neurodevelopmental disorders is not the cause for criminal behaviors is too broad.
Short answer is that most mental health and neurodevelopmental disorders is not the cause for criminal behaviors, but long answer is that mental health and neurodevelopmental disorders is the cause for criminal behaviors, but it depends on what mental health and neurodevelopmental disorders we are talking about.
The problem is that there are a lot of mental health and neurodevelopental disorders and each mental health and neurodevelopmental disorders are not the same to each other.
Statistically, most people with mental health and neurodevelopmental disorders are more likely to be victims than being perpetrators. There are however small-subgroup of people with mental health and neurodevelopmental disorders that commit crimes.
There are however some mental disorders that is related to criminal behaviors, it includes specific command hallucinations, specific delusions of paranoid and grandiose themes, and Erotomania, specific pathological jealousy , but criminal behaviors is more related to Distributive, Impulsive Control and Conduct Disorders, especially Antisocial Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder and specific Paraphilic Disorders. About Bipolar Disorder, criminal behaviors is more associated with Distributive, Impulsive Control and Conduct Disorders, and specific Paraphilic Disorders. Symptoms of Bipolar Disorder includes impulsively and risky behaviors.
About Communication Disorders and Autism Spectrum Disorder, criminal behaviors in Communication Disorders and Autism Spectrum Disorder is mostly related to lack of social skills, not out of maliciousness or sadism.
Sources:
Mental Health Myths and Facts | MentalHealth.gov
Neurodevelopmental disorder and violence - Improving risk management for violence in mental health services: a multimethods approach - NCBI Bookshelf
Psychiatric Illness And Criminality - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf
[Investigating the association between psychosis and criminality/violence] - PubMed
The Relationship between Personality Disorders and the Type of Crime Committed and Substance Used among Prisoners
Impulse Control Disorders - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf
Conduct Disorder - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf
Antisocial Personality Disorder - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf
Narcissistic Personality Disorder in Clinical Health Psychology Practice: Case Studies of Comorbid Psychological Distress and Life-Limiting Illness
Asperger's disorder and criminal behavior: forensic-psychiatric considerations - PubMed
Paraphilia - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf
(Some articles are outdated)
My favorite pet peeve is when most articles states that mental illness is not the cause for criminal behavior, they don't specify what mental disorders they are referring to, because certain mental psychiatric disorders is the cause for criminal behavior, and blanket word "Mental Illness" is too broad.
Short answer is that most mental health and neurodevelopmental disorders is not the cause for criminal behaviors, but long answer is that mental health and neurodevelopmental disorders is the cause for criminal behaviors, but it depends on what mental health and neurodevelopmental disorders we are talking about.
The problem is that there are a lot of mental health and neurodevelopental disorders and each mental health and neurodevelopmental disorders are not the same to each other.
Statistically, most people with mental health and neurodevelopmental disorders are more likely to be victims than being perpetrators. There are however small-subgroup of people with mental health and neurodevelopmental disorders that commit crimes.
There are however some mental disorders that is related to criminal behaviors, it includes specific command hallucinations, specific delusions of paranoid and grandiose themes, and Erotomania, specific pathological jealousy , but criminal behaviors is more related to Distributive, Impulsive Control and Conduct Disorders, especially Antisocial Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder and specific Paraphilic Disorders. About Bipolar Disorder, criminal behaviors is more associated with Distributive, Impulsive Control and Conduct Disorders, and specific Paraphilic Disorders. Symptoms of Bipolar Disorder includes impulsively and risky behaviors.
About Communication Disorders and Autism Spectrum Disorder, criminal behaviors in Communication Disorders and Autism Spectrum Disorder is mostly related to lack of social skills, not out of maliciousness or sadism.
Sources:
Mental Health Myths and Facts | MentalHealth.gov
Neurodevelopmental disorder and violence - Improving risk management for violence in mental health services: a multimethods approach - NCBI Bookshelf
Psychiatric Illness And Criminality - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf
[Investigating the association between psychosis and criminality/violence] - PubMed
The Relationship between Personality Disorders and the Type of Crime Committed and Substance Used among Prisoners
Impulse Control Disorders - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf
Conduct Disorder - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf
Antisocial Personality Disorder - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf
Narcissistic Personality Disorder in Clinical Health Psychology Practice: Case Studies of Comorbid Psychological Distress and Life-Limiting Illness
Asperger's disorder and criminal behavior: forensic-psychiatric considerations - PubMed
Paraphilia - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf
(Some articles are outdated)
My favorite pet peeve is when most articles states that mental illness is not the cause for criminal behavior, they don't specify what mental disorders they are referring to, because certain mental psychiatric disorders is the cause for criminal behavior, and blanket word "Mental Illness" is too broad.
