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- Selenius, Heidi, et al.
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Educational Needs among Women Admitted to High Secure Forensic Psychiatric Care
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Forensic Psychology Research and Practice. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 2473-2850 .- 2473-2842. ; 22:3, s. 269-284
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Forensic psychiatric patients’ low educational attainment is a strong predictor for recidivism. However, there is a lack of studies on the educational background among women admitted to forensic psychiatric care. The study aimed to investigate the educational background among women within a high secure forensic psychiatric setting. A mixed-method design was applied. Data were collected from registers, including medical records, forensic psychiatric investigations, and verdicts (n = 93), and by conducting interviews (n = 61) with women admitted to forensic psychiatric care in Sweden. The women’s education length varied between 5 and 18 years. According to interviews and registers, more than 70% of the women were found to have some school-related problems. In the interviews, some women associated school with conflicts, loneliness, and learning difficulties. Others explained how their disadvantageous home environment and many school changes affected their learning and problems developing and maintaining social relationships. Women with a neurodevelopmental disorder were to a higher degree documented with school-related problems than women without such disorders (97% vs. 63%). The educational attainment varied among the women, and consequently, their educational needs were heterogeneous. Therefore, they should be offered tailored education and vocational support to have an increased prerequisite for adjusting to and participating in society.
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- Petersson, Joakim, 1988-, et al.
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Hur ökad kunskap om partnervåldsförövare kan förhindra våldsutsatthet
- 2015
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Föreliggande presentation ämnar redogöra för mitt avhandlingsprojekt. Detta baseras på ett av Brottsoffermyndigheten finansierat projekt om användandet av strukturerade riskbedömningar inom polisen för att förhindra våld. Forskning har visat att användandet av strukturerade checklistor för bedömning av risk är en välfungerande metod att använda inom såväl polis, kriminalvård och rättspsykiatri för bedömning och hantering av risk för våld. Projektet ”Strukturerade vs ostrukturerade riskbedömningar för våld”, som avslutas sommaren 2016, initierades 2009 av kriminologisektionen vid Mittuniversitetet i Sundsvall. En strukturerad arbetsmetod, bestående av strukturerade checklistor för partnervåld, stalkning och hedersrelaterat våld, implementerades i Jämtlands samt Västernorrlands polismyndighet. En sådan checklista var Spousal Assault Risk Assessment Guide: Short Version (SARA: SV). Denna checklista syftar till att förhindra partnervåld genom att erbjuda ett strukturerat och systematiskt tillvägagångssätt att bedöma risk för upprepat sådant våld.Den första delstudien i avhandlingen baseras på sådana SARA: SV- bedömningar och fokuserar på karaktäristika hos olika subtyper av misstänkta partnervåldsförövare. Dessa förövare fördelades i två grupper baserat på typ av våld. Tidigare forskning på området har påvisat att partnervåldsförövare utgör en heterogen grupp, varvid klassificeringen av sådana förövare har uppmärksammats som ett viktigt forskningsområde. En av de mest distinkt särskiljande drag som karaktäriserar olika subtyper av partnervåldsförövare är våldets generalitet. De förövare som ej begränsar sitt våldsutövande enbart till sin partner (så kallade ”antisociala förövare”) har uppvisat flertalet unika karaktäristika jämfört med de förövare som enbart är våldsamma mot sin partner (så kallade ”family-only-förövare”). Bland annat har de antisociala förövarna i större utsträckning missbruksproblem, psykiska problem och använder allvarligare våld jämfört med family-only-förövare (se exempelvis Thijssen & de Ruiter, 2011; Walsh et al., 2010).En av de främsta anledningarna till att identifiera sådana subtyper är möjligheten att i större utsträckning förhindra partnervåld. Genom att ta hänsyn till de individuella skillnader som finns hos olika subtyper av partnervåldsförövare kan mest lämpliga riskhanteringstrategi för respektive subtyp användas. Ett sådant förfarande syftar i slutändan till att minimera risken för upprepad viktimisering för den drabbade. Mot bakgrund av detta presenteras upplägget och genomförandet av den första delstudien i avhandlingen. Studien kommer mer specifikt att undersöka eventuella skillnader i bakgrundsfaktorer och riskfaktorer för upprepat partnervåld, mellan antisociala- och family-only- förövare. Datainsamlingen har genomförts och preliminära analyser kommer att presenteras. Slutligen kommer även upplägget och planeringen för den andra delstudien i avhandlingsprojektet kort att presenteras. Denna studie kommer att bygga vidare på dessa subtyper av partnervåldsförövare och undersöka återfall i brottslighet.
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- Strand, Susanne J. M., Docent, 1972-, et al.
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Repeated and Systematic Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Areas in Sweden
- 2021
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Ingår i: International Criminology. - : Springer. - 2662-9968 .- 2662-9976. ; 1:3, s. 220-233
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Violence against women lacks geographical boundaries, although research demonstrates higher rates of such violence in rural areas compared to urban areas. The repeated and systematic intimate partner violence (IPV) is especially problematic in isolated areas. This study aims to investigate how repeated and systematic IPV, was handled by the criminal justice system in rural areas in Sweden and how risk and victim vulnerability factors were related to recidivism in this longitudinal prospective study. The sample consisted of alleged perpetrators of repeated and systematic IPV who had been either reported, charged, or convicted of repeated and systematic IPV defined according to the Swedish Law Gross Violation of a Woman’s Integrity targeting such violence, in two rural Swedish police districts during 2011–2014 (N = 258). Results demonstrated that 30% of IPV perpetrators were charged with the Gross violation offense and 5% were charged for other IPV-related offenses. The conviction for the Gross violation offense was 11% and 24% for other IPV-related offenses. 56% were not charged or convicted of any IPV-related offenses. Perpetrators convicted of the Gross Violation offense were more likely to receive longer prison sentences than perpetrators convicted of other IPV-related offenses. Victim cooperation in the police investigation increased the likelihood for prosecution with 7.3 times and for a conviction with 6.1 times. In terms of recidivism 24% engaged in IPV towards the same victim and another 27% recidivated into general criminality. Recidivists had higher summary risk ratings and more individual risk factors than non-recidivists, such as general criminality, employment problems and mental health problems, and victim vulnerability factors including personal problems. To reduce re-victimization, risk and vulnerability factors and supporting victims to cooperate in the police investigation should be considered when forming risk management strategies to protect victims of repeated and systematic IPV in such rural areas.
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- Strand, Susanne, 1972-, et al.
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Comparison of HCR-20 scores in violent mentally disordered men and women : Gender differences and similarities
- 2001
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Ingår i: Psychology, Crime and Law. - : Harwood Academic. - 1068-316X .- 1477-2744. ; 7:1, s. 71-79
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Retrospective risk assessments based on the HCR-20 violence risk assessment scheme were performed on 63 female patients and 85 male patients at two special forensic psychiatric hospitals. The aim was to compare risk factors for violence in mentally disordered women with their male counterparts, and to study to what extent the HCR-20, which is mainly based on research on men, can be used in a female forensic psychiatric population. The results show that the HCR-20 displays very similar risk factors for violence in women as in men, but the nature of violence is somewhat different between the sexes. Implications of the findings are discussed.
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- Kristiansen, Lisbeth, et al.
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Rättspsykiatri
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Ingår i: Omvårdnad vid psykisk ohälsa. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144095387 ; , s. 323-348
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- Selenius, Heidi, 1976-, et al.
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Superficiality in forensic psychiatric patients is related to superior phonological, semantic and syntactic skills
- 2015
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Psychiatry. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0803-9488 .- 1502-4725. ; 69:5, s. 392-396
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Psychopaths are reported to have unusual language processing, and they have beensuggested to have better phonological awareness than do non-psychopaths. Phonologicalprocessing skills have not been studied among psychopathic persons, and it is unclear how thedegree of psychopathy is related to such skills.Aims: One aim of the present study was toinvestigate this relationship. An additional aim was to investigate how affective-interpersonaltraits and antisocial lifestyle of psychopaths are related to verbal skills such as reading andspelling, as well as to phonological processing skills.Material and methods: Forty (80% male)forensic psychiatric patients participated. They were all Swedish speaking and their mean agewas 36 years. The patients performed reading and spelling tests as well as a battery of tasksassessing phonological processing. The patients were also assessed using the Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version (PCL:SV).Results: The patients’ scores on Factor 1 (affective andinterpersonal traits) of the PCL:SV were significantly positively correlated with results on decoding of sentences and reading speed tests as well as with phonological processing skills. However, the only item that was significantly related to phonological processing skills as wellas semantic and syntactic skills was Superficial.Conclusions: In general, psychopaths easilyshift conversational topics, and it may be due to a certain cognitive skill such as rapidautomatized naming. We suggest that further studies focus on rapid automatized naming inpsychopaths to clarify whether their superficial character might be related to rapid naming.
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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
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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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