Search for dissertations about: "suicide offenders"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the words suicide offenders.
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1. Self-harm in young violent offenders and forensic psychiatric patients
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2. Epidemiological studies of suicide : classification bias, drug use, and social circumstances
Abstract : Despite the decline in suicide rates in Sweden during the past decades, suicide still constitutes a severe public health problem and is a cause of death that to a large extent could be prevented. In 2008 the Swedish Parliament ratified the Swedish government’s suggestion of a ‘Vision Zero’ policy for suicide. READ MORE
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3. A multivariate approach to the interpretation of patterns in homicidal and suicidal sharp force fatalities
Abstract : Sharp force injury is in Sweden as in many other European countries the leading cause of homicidal deaths. Sharp force suicide, constitutes almost as many fatalities and sometimes a difficult differential diagnosis. An objective of this thesis is to identify and quantify variables indicating suicide or homicide. READ MORE
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4. Violence against a person : the role of mental disorder and abuse : a study of homicides and an analysis of criminality in a cohort of patients with schizophrenia
Abstract : Interpersonal violence is a matter of growing concern. Where the safety of the common man is concerned, the dangerousness of mental patients, the ongoing de-institutionalization within psychiatry, and the role of alcohol is disputed. READ MORE
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5. Child and adult homicide in Sweden : epidemiological and forensic features
Abstract : Homicide occurs worldwide and is often regarded a major public-health concern. The studies comprising the present thesis were conducted with a view to advancing knowledge of both child and adult homicide from the viewpoints of different branches of forensic science. READ MORE