Search for dissertations about: "mental disorders and crime"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 swedish dissertations containing the words mental disorders and crime.

2. 1. Suicides, psychotic disorders and criminality among former child and adolescent psychiatric patients followed into adulthood

   Author : Ulf Engqvist; Mittuniversitetet; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Psychiatry; child; adolescent; adult; mortality; suicide; crime; mental disorders; psychotic disorders; paediatrics; longitudinal studies; Child and adolescent psychiatry; Barn- och ungdomspsykiatri; Psychiatry; child; adolescent; adult; mortality; suicide; crime; mental disorders; psychotic disorders; paediatrics; longitudinal studies;

   Abstract : The overall aim was to provide information about child and adolescent psychiatric (CAP) patients and their outcome as adults: Were their difficulties in childhood due to mental illness, disablement and/or behaviour disorders? What happened to them as adults? Who were the patients in need of psychiatric care (GenP) in adulthood that had not had previous contact with CAP? Did this group differ from the former CAP group? Methods: Paper I-III: 1,400 CAP patients admitted 1975-1990 to inpatient or outpatient CAP care in Jämtland County, Sweden were followed until 2003. Paper IV: A sample of 167 GenP patients not treated in CAP was compared to GenP patients with a history of CAP care. READ MORE

4. 2. Violent female offenders : Facts and preconceptions

   Author : Jenny Yourstone; Torun Lindholm; Ola Svenson; Martin Grann; Pekka Santtila; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Female; Violence; Crime; Psychosocial background; Gender bias; Stereotypes; In-group bias; Forensic psychiatry; Mental disorders; Legal insanity; Psychology; Psykologi; psykologi; Psychology;

   Abstract : Women’s comparably low participation in criminal activity has resulted in little overall attention to female offenders in criminological research. The general aim of the present thesis is to illuminate aspects of particular significance for understanding female perpetrators of very serious crimes. READ MORE

5. 3. On lifetime violent criminality in a Swedish forensic psychiatric cohort

   Author : Hedvig Krona; Barn- och ungdomspsykiatri; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; forensic psychiatry; violent crime; lifetime criminality; mental disorders; crime prediction; Risk Assessment; SPECT-MRI- optical imaging;

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6. 4. The impact of criminal and externalizing behaviors on aging : Long-term associations with health and dementia

   Author : Carmen Solares Canal; Henrik Larsson; Jonas Persson; Henrik Andershed; Björn Hofvander; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Older adults; aging; criminal behavior; externalizing behaviors; violent crime; dementia; Alzheimer s diseases; mental health; physical health; epidemiology;

   Abstract : Previous studies have shown that criminal and other externalizing behaviors are associated with several adverse outcomes, but very little is known about the impact of these behaviors beyond middle adulthood. Few studies have explored how a life-course background of criminal and externalizing behaviors influence aging and more specifically, whether it is associated with the onset and development of different neurodegenerative, mental, and physical health disorders when aging. READ MORE

7. 5. Mental disorders and violence risk : epidemiological and clinical cohort studies

   Author : Tomas Moberg; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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   Abstract : Introduction: Violence morbidity and mortality has been increasingly recognized to be of importance for public health. The relationship between mental illness and violent crime is complex because of the involvement of several confounding risk factors. READ MORE