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[Comparison of sexual murderers in forensic psychiatric hospitals and in prison].

Institut für Sexualforschung und Forensische Psychiatrie, Zentrum für Psychosoziale Medizin, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistrasse 52, Hamburg, Germany.
Der Nervenarzt (impact factor: 0.68). 06/2008; 79(5):587-93. DOI:10.1007/s00115-007-2394-x pp.587-93
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ABSTRACT Empirical data are lacking that answer the question of how sexual murderers detained in forensic mental hospitals can be differentiated from those sentenced to prison. Psychiatric court reports and national criminal records on sexual murderers detained in a forensic mental hospital (n=45) were compared with those of prisoners (n=89) regarding diagnostic, criminologic, and prognostic characteristics and criminal recidivism rates after detention. Sexual murderers detained in forensic mental hospitals were characterized by higher psychiatric morbidity and slightly higher risk of future sexual and nonsexual violence. They were released from incarceration less often than the prison inmates but did not show higher sexual or nonsexual violence recidivism rates than those from the prison group.

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Keywords

criminal recidivism rates
 
criminologic
 
detention
 
Empirical data
 
forensic mental hospital
 
forensic mental hospitals
 
future sexual
 
higher psychiatric morbidity
 
higher risk
 
higher sexual
 
nonsexual violence
 
nonsexual violence recidivism rates
 
prison group
 
prison inmates
 
prisoners
 
Psychiatric court reports
 
Sexual murderers
 

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