Essays about: "Forensic-psychiatric treatment"

Found 3 essays containing the words Forensic-psychiatric treatment.

1. 1. Antisocial behaviors and substance abuse among mentally illoffenders - an undesirable role in time of treatment?

   University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för medicinska vetenskaper

   Author : Stina Stenberg; [2021]
   Keywords : substance abuse – antisocial behaviors – forensic-psychiatry – time in treatment – Sweden;

   Abstract : Introduction Offenders who suffer from a severe mental illness are sentenced to forensic-psychiatric careinstead of imprisonment. A severe mental illness is a legal term determined by type anddegree of the psychiatric illness. Forensic-psychiatric care ends when signs of severe mentalillness is no longer present. READ MORE

3. 2. COMPARISON BETWEEN CLIENTS IN FORENSIC-PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT AND PRISON IN SWEDEN 1995-2018

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för kriminologi (KR)

   Author : Hossam Mohamed Salah El-Din Aly Mohamed; [2020]
   Keywords : Serious crimes; Mental illness; Offenders with mentally disorders; Forensic-psychiatric treatment; Prison sentence;

   Abstract : Abstract Purpose: The study aims to establish a summary of the main characteristics of gender, age, types of crimes and previous criminal records of the offenders sentenced to forensic-psychiatric care in the time period 1995 to 2018 in Sweden and to compare them with offenders sentenced to imprisonment for the same types of crime types in the same time period in Sweden as well as to link different types of crimes to mental illness. Furthermore, the study attempts to find correlations between the group sentenced to forensic-psychiatric care and different types of crimes. READ MORE

4. 3. Mad or Bad? : Explaining the different outcomes of reforming treatment organisation for mentally disordered offenders in Britain & Sweden

   University essay from Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Wendy Katherine Maycraft Kall; [2004]
   Keywords : mental health; criminal justice; Sweden; Britain; administrative traditions; care-philosophy;

   Abstract : Britain and Sweden have had similar backgrounds when it comes to organising treatment of Mentally Disordered Offenders who are sentenced to forensic psychiatric care instead of prison. Traditionally care has been centrally controlled and isolated from mainstream healthcare structures. READ MORE