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Prison or Psychiatric Hospital?
sort of men were being referred for reports. We particularly wanted to know their diagnosis, social background, the proportion needing hospital admission, whether that admission could have been arranged without the court, whether these people were very different from the ordinary hospital admissions and whether they needed any special nursing care. In 1963 there were 146 referrals of men to the...
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Currently, training in legal and forensic aspects for both psychiatrists and residents is not regulated and is significantly scarce. However, concern on these areas has increased throughout recent years, and hence there are increasingly more young professionals interested in Psychiatry’s legal and forensic issues. Nevertheless, during the specialized training of residents, Legal Psychiatry is p...
متن کاملHow many psychiatric patients in prison?
The paper compares the prevalence of psychiatric morbidity amongst sentenced prisoners and in the general population. Major psychosis was no more common in the majority of studies of criminal populations. Although prisoners have a higher level of neurotic symptomatology, this was mainly found to be secondary to imprisonment itself. Long term imprisonment was not found to be a precipitant of sev...
متن کاملPsychiatric needs of male prison inmates in Italy.
This paper presents data on the mental health needs of men in an Italian prison and examines if mental health needs of inmates differ across key correctional subpopulations. Interviewers conducted semi-structured clinical interviews with 526 convicted males incarcerated in the Spoleto Prison from October 2010 through September 2011. Nearly two thirds (65.0%) of inmates had an Axis I or Axis II ...
متن کاملClinical Profile of Patients Attending a Prison Psychiatric Clinic
Psychiatric morbidity is higher in prison inmates as compared to that in general population but treatment facilities are often inadequate. The present work reports the profile of psychiatric patients seen in a jail hospital over a period of three months. The jail had about 9000 inmates. Psychiatric services consisted of weekly visit by a psychiatrist. Seventy two male inmates were seen during t...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0253-7176,0975-1564
DOI: 10.1177/0975156420050516