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Criminality Among Patients with Klinefelter's Syndrome and the Xyy Syndrome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Johannes Nielsen
Johannes Nielsen*
Affiliation:
The Cytogenetic Laboratory, Århus State Hospital, Risskov, Denmark
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The present study is a preliminary report of the frequency and type of criminality in men with Klinefelter's syndrome and the XYY syndrome; it has been made on the background of previous findings of a comparatively high frequency of criminality among such patients.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 117 , Issue 539 , October 1970 , pp. 365 - 369
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1970 

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