Ethical issues in forensic psychiatric research on mentally disordered offenders.

Mentally disordered offenders - a longitudinal study of forensic psychiatric assessments and criminal recidivism

On the outcome of the treatment of mentally disordered criminal offenders (according to §64 German penal code) suffering from addictive disorders

OBJECTIVE To provide an overview on the increase of forensic psychiatric hospitalizations in Saxony, and present findings on criminal conviction and recidivism rates of 277 criminal offenders ordered to a forensic psychiatric facility caring for addictive disorders between 1996 and 2001. METHODS Cluster- and regression-analytic procedures identified predictive variables for declaring the fore...

Mentally Disordered Firesetters Running Head: MENTALLY DISORDERED FIRESETTERS Explanations of Firesetting in Mentally Disordered Offenders: A Review of the Literature

This paper reviews current explanations of firesetting in adult mentally disordered offenders. In particular attention is given to contemporary research that has examined the developmental and background characteristics, personality and associated traits, motivation for firesetting, neurobiological explanations, psychiatric diagnoses and frequency of self injurious behaviour; including suicide....

The impact of the Danish Medico-Legal Council on the choice between treatment and punishment for non-psychotic offenders.

BACKGROUND The Danish Medico-Legal Council provides the court with statements based on available psychiatric assessment reports to assist the law in the use of the Penal Code sections on mentally disordered offenders. AIMS To analyse the impact of the Council on the courts' choice between punishment and treatment in cases of offenders falling under §69 of the Penal Code, i.e. mentally disorde...

Factors associated with the diversion of mentally disordered offenders.

This study is an examination of the process of pre-trial diversion, in which prosecutors use their discretion to drop criminal proceedings against mentally disordered persons on the condition that such persons be certified and detained for treatment in a hospital setting. An attempt was made to uncover the factors relevant to understanding why mentally disordered offenders are diverted in some ...