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- Belfrage, Henrik, 1955-, et al.
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Assessing risk of patriarchal violence with honour as a motive : six years experience using the PATRIARCH checklist
- 2012
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Ingår i: International Journal of Police Science and Management. - : Sage Publications. - 1461-3557 .- 1478-1603. ; 14:1, s. 20-29
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Few crimes are as complicated to investigate and understand as honour-based crimes. The planning and execution often involves multiple family members, usually without personality disorders or major mental disorders, and can include mothers, sisters, brothers, male cousins, uncles and grandfathers whose actions are by many, themselves included, considered as good or necessary. Investigations often have to be carried out transnational, involving many authorities and sometimes several countries. This paper describes the process of developing an evidence-based checklist which has been used for six years in Sweden as an aid for law enforcement and social authorities in cases with suspected risk for honour-based violence. Data from 56 recent cases are presented and discussed.
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- Belfrage, Henrik, 1955-
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Psykiskt störda brottslingar : En studie av begreppet "jämställd med sinnessjukdom" - dess historiska bakgrund och praktiska tillämpning
- 1989
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The main objective of this thesis is to study the concept of "equivalent to insanity", its historical background and practical application.Based on a legal historical presentation I show that the term "equivalent to insanity" has one content under the 1864 Penal Statutes, and an entirely different one under the 1962 Criminal Code.The empirical findings are, that those persons in my material who were assessed to be "equivalent to insane" (298 persons), display similar characteristics as corresponding clientele in previous studies. They are, apart from being mentally disordered, also severely socially handicapped.After having examined the concept "equivalent to insanity" and described the persons which were deemed "equivalent", I then concentrate on the question of the reliability of these assessments. The findings are that there is good accordance between different assessments of the same criminal case.To answer the question whether this special category of offenders is treatable, I have used a control group consisting of offenders who where assessed not to be "equivalent to insane" (256 persons). My criterion for "treatability" is recidivism into crime in a three-year period. The results are, that psychiatric treatment has apositive crime preventive effect on some categories of offenders (especially offenders sentenced for assault), but none of significance on others (especially property offenders). It is therefore erroneous to pose the question: Does psychiatric treatment have more crime preventive effect than a prison sentence? The question is far too general. One must take into consideration the crime category dominating the study groups. But it is probable that even further ambiguities are concealed in the question. It is therefore cruicial that further research be aimed at seeking crime preventive factors of psychiatric treatment of mentally disordered offenders.
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- Persson, Mats, et al.
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Self-reported violent ideation and its link to interpersonal violence among offenders with mental disorders and general psychiatric patients
- 2018
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Ingår i: Psychiatry Research. - : ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD. - 0165-1781 .- 1872-7123. ; 261, s. 197-203
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study aims at comparing mentally disordered offenders and general psychiatric patients regarding violent ideation and at exploring its association with interpersonal violence. We recruited 200 detainees undergoing forensic psychiatric evaluation and 390 general psychiatric patients at discharge. At baseline, they were asked about violent ideation; at the 20-week follow-up, information about violent acts was gathered from crime conviction registry, interviews, and records. The lifetime prevalence of violent ideation was 32.5% for offenders and 35.6% for patients; the corresponding two-month prevalence was 22.5% and 21.0%, respectively. For the both samples combined, those with violent ideation in their lifetime were significantly more prone to commit violent acts during follow-up than those without such ideation, OR = 2.65. The same applied to the patient sample, OR = 3.41. In terms of positive predictive values, fewer than 25% of those with violent ideation committed violent acts. Contrary to our hypothesis, the prevalence of violent ideation did not differ significantly between offenders and patients. However, there was support for the hypothesized association between violent ideation and violent acts on a group level. On an individual level, the clinician should consider additional factors when assessing the risk for violent acts.
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