This study is dealing with some issues related to violence risk assessment of schizophrenics discharged from mental health department in general hospitals. The main issues include:•Assessing the relation between schizophrenia and risk of future violence on the period of two weeks after management in the psychiatric unit of Kasr Elaini, Cairo University Medical School Hospital in Egypt.•To examine how risk assessment tools can be of a beneficial value in helping psychiatrists in predicting the risk of future violence in schizophrenics after discharge.•To assess the main risk factors that can be of important role in the relation between violence and schizophrenia.