Essays about: "Offenders with mentally disorders"

Found 2 essays containing the words Offenders with mentally disorders.

1. 1. 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

3. 2. Mad or Bad- Criminal Responsibility and Mental Disorder

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Author : Caroline Rosengren; [2005]
   Keywords : Allmän rättslära; Komparativ rätt; Straffrätt; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : This thesis is a comparative analysis of five cases, in which criminal responsibility and mental disorder were in issue. Andrea Yates drowned her five children. John W. Hinckley Jr shot and injured President Ronald Reagan. READ MORE