Background: Forensic psychiatric care treats mentally disordered offenders who suffer
mainly from psychotic disorders, although comorbidities such as personality disorders …

Crime is an expensive aspect of society, and each year huge amounts of public money are
spent on the courts, police, probation services, and prisons, while the human costs in terms …

Background: Pharmacological treatment is of great importance in forensic psychiatry, and
the vast majority of patients are treated with antipsychotic agents. There are several …

Objectives To determine rates and risk factors for adverse outcomes in patients discharged
from forensic psychiatric services. Method We conducted a historical cohort study of all …

OBJECTIVE: To describe criminal recidivism, especially violent recidivism, in a long-term
follow-up of mentally disordered offenders sentenced to different types of sanctions …

To the best of our knowledge, the present register is the only nationwide forensic psychiatric
patient register in the world. The aim of this article is to describe the content of the Swedish …

Background Offenders with intellectual disability (ID) constitute a distinct subgroup of
offenders with mental disorders. Regarding criminal recidivism, it is unclear whether or not …

Aims To study associations between intellectual disability (ID) and sexual and violent
offending among individuals subject to pre-trial forensic psychiatric assessment. To …

Background: Forensic psychiatric patients present a challenge as they manifest severe
mental disorders together with criminal behaviour. There are well-known risk factors for …

Homicide committed by female offenders is an understudied phenomenon. This study
examines whether incidence rates of male-perpetrated and female-perpetrated homicide …