Patients discharged from medium secure forensic psychiatry services: Reconvictions and risk factors

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 190, Issue MAR., 2007, Pages 223-229

  Coid, Jeremy ^a   Mickey, Nicole ^b   Kahtan, Nadji ^c   Zhang, Tianqiang ^a   Yang, Min ^a  

^a ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Peckwater Centre   (United Kingdom)

^c Three Bridges Regional Secure Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; DELINQUENCY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PERSONALITY DISORDER; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL CRIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CRIME; DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; RISK MANAGEMENT; WALES;

EID: 33847699757     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.105.018788     Document Type: Article

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