Gender-specific treatment for female young offenders

Gender-Specific Asthma Treatment

Because genetic characteristics vary among subjects, the therapeutic effects of a certain drug differ among patients with the same disease. For this reason, special interest has focused on tailored treatments. Although it is well known that sex is genetically determined, little attention has been paid to sex differences in the clinical features and treatment of asthma. Females are more likely t...

Drug Dependence Treatment Awareness among Japanese Female Stimulant Drug Offenders

Few stimulant drug users receive adequate treatment. This cross-sectional study describes the characteristics of female drug offenders that use stimulants and clarifies the factors related to the awareness of treatment for drug dependencies. We included 80 females imprisoned due to stimulant control law violations from 2012 to 2015. The characteristics of the female prisoners were stratified ac...

Psychiatric treatment for offenders.

Forensic psychiatry, correctional psychiatry and psychiatric criminology are the major medical disciplines which address the problems of criminal behavior. Interest in these disciplines has fluctuated from decade to decade and reflects advances in medical knowledge and the realities of practice patterns and changes in professional attitudes.! At present, forensic psychiatry has achieved a certa...

The Effectiveness of Substance Abuse Treatment with Young Offenders

Amnesia for violent crime among young offenders

Amnesia for the perpetration of violent offences is an important issue in medico-legal proceedings. Previous studies of amnesia have mainly relied on selected groups of unconvicted offenders, which raises the question of how reliable the findings are. The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence and phenomenological qualities of amnesia in violent offenders. In semi-structured interv...