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Older criminals: a descriptive study of psychiatrically examined offenders in Sweden.
- Abstract:
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OBJECTIVE: We retrospectively examined psychiatric diagnoses of older offenders referred by court for psychiatric assessment in Sweden, and compared them with younger offenders. METHOD: In Sweden, structured court-ordered forensic psychiatric evaluations are undertaken by a forensic psychiatric team. Data on age, sex, citizenship, psychiatric diagnoses, offences, and legal insanity declarations were obtained for the years 1988-2000 (n = 7297). RESULTS: There were 210 forensic psychiatric eva...
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- Journal:
- International journal of geriatric psychiatry
- Volume:
- 17
- Issue:
- 10
- Pages:
- 907-913
- Publication date:
- 2002-10-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1099-1166
- ISSN:
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0885-6230
- Source identifiers:
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176963
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- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
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pubs:176963
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- pubs:176963
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- Copyright date:
- 2002
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