Law and Psychiatry
Scandinavia in the 1980s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9775902 |
|---|---|
| Authors | LEIF ÖJESJÖ (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 484 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 144-154 |
| Publication date | 1986-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716286484001011 |
| PMID | 10276572 |
| OpenAlex | W2119069251 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 30 |
The major policies and practices with regard to the civil and criminal commitment of the mentally ill in the Scandinavian countries during the 1970s and 1980s are described and discussed. Deinstitutionalization, community work, and outpatient treatment within geographically defined sectors have been introduced in all the Nordic countries. At the same time, criminally committed mental patients constitute an increasing proportion of the involuntarily hospitalized population. The special defense of insanity and tests such as McNaughtan are not used in the Scandinavian countries. The handling and disposition of severely mentally ill criminal defendants is closer to the notions of guilty but mentally ill in some U.S. jurisdictions, although in Scandinavia such persons are hospitalized and do not receive penal sentences. Even though forensic psychiatry has come under much criticism, there is still a need for psychiatric evaluations for courts and there is still a need for the provision of mental health treatment, rehabilitation, and follow-up for mentally disordered offenders
Criminal law · Criminal responsibility · Criminology · Criticism · Forensic psychiatry · Insanity · Mental health · Mental illness · Mentally ill · Political science · Population · Psychiatry · Law · Medicine · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Psychiatric care and mental health services · Psychology · Schizophrenia research and treatment
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |