Table 3.

Offender health & mental health status.

Study	Older homicide offenders	Offender caregiver role	Homicide-suicide	Past psychiatric history	Affected by alcohol	Psychotic episode	Mood disorder episode	Cognitive impairment	Medical illness	Court outcome & disposition	Psychiatric reports
Aliustaoĝlu et al. (2011)	83	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	21 mentally ill; 62 healthy	N/A
Bourget et al. (2010)	27	N/A	19 (70%)	N/A	1	2	15 (56%)	N/A	pre-existing medical illness in 10 of 11 available victim records	N/A	N/A
Cheung et al. (2016)	4	1	4 (100%)	2	N/A	N/A	1 (25%)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Hunt et al. (2010)	62	N/A	N/A	5 schizophrenia; 25 affective disorders; 6 history of alcohol misuse	N/A	7 delusions at time of offence; 3 had hallucinations	27 depression	3 dementia	N/A	17 convicted of murder, 25 manslaughter; 17 manslaughter sect 2 (diminished responsibility); 2 unfit to plead; 1 legally insane. 30 imprisoned; 15 hospitalised; 18 other	psychiatric reports available for 54% of offenders
Kratcoski (1990)	179	N/A	15 (9%)	82 (46%)	82 (44%) offenders; 72 (40%) both were drinking	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	4 NGRMI; 37 offenders never went to trial (some went to mental hospital)	N/A
Malphurs and Cohen (2005)	20	8	20 (100%)	N/A	3	N/A	13 depressed mood	N/A	at least 17 had atherosclerosis	N/A	N/A
Overshott et al. (2012)	47	N/A	11 (23%)	N/A	8	2	11 depression	9 dementia	N/A	13 (28%) murder; 17 (36%) manslaughter/diminished responsibility; 14 (30%) manslaughter - other/self-defence. 27 (57%) prison; 9 (19%) hospital order; 11 (23%) non-custodial sentence	36 had psychiatric reports
Putkonen et al. (2010)	25	N/A	3 (12%)	12	20	3	N/A	5	12	N/A	N/A
Reutens et al. (2015)	70	N/A	N/A	N/A	15 of 16 offenders with previous alcohol use disorder were intoxicated	13 (6 had delusions of infidelity)	N/A	21 (30%)	34 (49%)	N/A	N/A
Shiferaw et al. (2010)	3	N/A	3 (100%)	N/A	1	N/A	2	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Verzeletti et al. (2014)	6	N/A	6 (100%)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A