Relationship of Psychobiological Variables to Recidivism in Violent Offenders and Impulsive Fire Setters: a Follow-up Study

The authors conducted a follow-up study to test the degree to which psychobiological variables, which previously had discriminated suicide attempters & impulsive offenders from controls, could discriminate recidivists in a sample of violent offenders & impulsive fire setters. They found that low cerbrospinal fluid 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid concentrations or homovanillic acid & low blood glucose nadir is associated with recidivism & correctly classified 84.5% of the subjects. (CM)