How changes in mental health law adversely affect offenders discharged from a security hospital
- 1 December 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Journal of Forensic Psychiatry
- Vol. 3 (3), 564-572
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09585189208409033
Abstract
Serious violent crime relapses (murder, homicide, aggravated assault) of 305 discharged offender patients between 1978 and 1990 were studied. The relapse rate in Finland was found to have dramatically increased. The abolition of monitored conditional release may be the reason for the increase. The typical features of 16 violent patients were determined and analysed.Keywords
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