Matricide Versus Patricide in One Croatian Psychiatric Forensic Inpatient Unit

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
pp. S463-S463 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Pedisic ◽  
K. Radic ◽  
N. Buzina ◽  
V. Jukic
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
Forensic Psychiatry ◽  
Psychotic Disorders ◽  
Rare Event ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Forensic Inpatient ◽  
Forensic Psychiatric ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
The University

IntroductionParricide (referring as parental homicide) is a rare event among homicides, yet challenging and intriguing from psychiatric point of view. Still, literature concerning parricide is sparse and most studies concern small or heterogenous samples or anecdotal cases.ObjectiveTo analyze differences in parricide offenders among forensic psychiatric inpatients at the university psychiatric hospital Vrapče's centre for forensic psychiatry.AimsTo test some differences between parricide offenders with regard to specific type of parricide.MethodsAvailable retrograde data of 50 years forensic inpatients (n = 430). We identified parricide cases of matricide and patricide included.ResultsThe analysis included a total of 22 parricide offenders. All parricide offenders were male adults. Matricide was more prevalent then patricide (13 vs. 9). Matricide offenders were in average younger when committed crime, had more prevalence of psychotic disorders and earlier onset of symptoms in comparison with patricide group.ConclusionWe identified differences and similarities between these two parricide offenders groups. It is important to expand research further including different types of motives and family dynamics regarding the type of parricide victim.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Forensic care in Germany

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S61-S61
Author(s):  
H. Dressing ◽  
H.J. Salize
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitals ◽  
Epidemiological Data ◽  
Mentally Ill Offenders ◽  
Legal Regulations ◽  
Forensic Patients ◽  
Penal Law ◽  
Forensic Psychiatric ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
Legal Frameworks

Although the idea that offenders suffering from a mental disorder must primarily be considered as ill and should therefore be exempted from punishment is of considerable antiquity legal frameworks and key concepts, which are applied in this field, differ widely in European Union member States. The respective legal regulations and epidemiological data of Germany will be presented.In German penal law the question of the guilt of an offender is of central significance. Legal regulations on the placement and treatment of mentally ill offenders in a forensic psychiatric hospital are subsumed under the section “Measures on improvement and safety”. Section 63 of the German penal law provides for the temporally unlimited commitment to a forensic- psychiatric hospital.In accordance with section 64 of the German penal law addicted offenders can be committed to a detoxification center for a period of up to two years. The available epidemiological data show a clear increase in the admissions to forensic psychiatric hospitals and to detoxification centers since beginnings of the 1990s. Recently the German parliament passed a new law. The aim of the new law is to strengthen patients’ rights and to diminish the number of forensic patients.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

scholarly journals Research of Readability and Identification of the Items in the Postal and Logistics Environment

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 196-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Kolarovszki
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Automatic Identification ◽  
Rfid Technology ◽  
Uhf Rfid ◽  
Identification Performance ◽  
Transmission Process ◽  
Processing Centre ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The University ◽  
Postal Sector

Abstract This article deals with RFID technology, which is a part of automatic identification and data capture. Nowadays, the identification of parcels in postal sector is carried through barcodes. In this article we would like specify, how can be postal parcels located in postal container identified in the transmission process of postal main processing centre by UHF RFID technology. All results are verified by measurement in our AIDC laboratory, which is located at the University of Žilina. Our research contains 12 different types of orientation tags and antennas and more than 1000 tests. Our identification performance was close to 100%. All tested parcels were located in postal container. The results of our research bring the new point of view and indicate the ways using of UHF RFID technology in postal applications. At the end of this article the utilization of the RFID technology in postal logistics chain is characterized.

Music Therapy and Forensic Psychiatry — Choice, Denial and the Law

1994 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 10-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Loth
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
Forensic Psychiatry ◽  
Therapy Group ◽  
Psychiatric Setting ◽  
Secure Unit ◽  
The Law ◽  
Forensic Psychiatric

This paper looks at aspects of work in the forensic psychiatric setting. It is based on music therapy work in a Medium Secure Unit, situated within a general psychiatric hospital. It was felt that there were several important differences in working in this unit of the hospital which often seemed to question the feasability and existence of a music therapy group. This paper concerns itself with these differences. A brief introduction to forensic psychiatry and secure units is given first. This is followed by a short case study of an eight-week music therapy group from which material is used to look at the themes identified. These are summarized into the headings of choice, denial and the law. Their effect on the patients is discussed and the ways in which the music therapy group can address the issues involved are highlighted.

SHANK3 mutation in consanguineous schizophrenia family in northwest Algeria

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S595-S596
Author(s):  
A. Dahdouh ◽  
J. Prados ◽  
M. Guipponi ◽  
F. Bena ◽  
W. Adouan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychotic Disorders ◽  
Rare Variants ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Common Disease ◽  
Multiplex Family ◽  
Illumina Hiseq ◽  
Genetic Technologies ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
The University

IntroductionSeveral studies have asserted the existence of a strong and complex genetic component in the determination of psychotic disorders. GWAS studies conducted over the past decade lead to the identification of only a few low effect associations, calling questioning the hypothesis of “common disease – common variants” for a model involving a large number of rare variants.AimsHere, we studied a multigenerational multiplex family with schizophrenia a high rate of consanguinity, located in the northwest of Algeria. This study aims to identify inherited rare variants of schizophrenia using new genetic technologies.MethodsThis family has received complete clinical (DIGS, DSM-IV criteria), genealogical investigations, CNV analysis using CGH Microarray Kit 244 K (Santa Clara, CA) and WES (by GAIIx Illumina/HiSeq 2000) focused in CNV regions, that were performed in the department of genetics in the university hospital of Geneva.ResultsWe identify 11 affected members by psychotic disorders. The main CNVs analysis results found in a schizophrenic member a Del 22q13.33 affecting SHANK3 gene. WES regarding these regions identified a mutation at position 511178000 in SHANK3 gene in all the selected affected relatives.DiscussionSeveral studies have asserted the association of SHANK3 mutations with schizophrenia and autism disorders. This is the first observation of rs511,178,000 in schizophrenia phenotype.ConclusionIn total, this highly informative family have identified new rare genetic variant of schizophrenia. The search for this mutation in wider control population in would be useful to validate these data.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Routine Outcome Monitoring (ROM) in Belgian and Dutch forensic patients

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S2) ◽  
pp. 2063-2063
Author(s):  
K. Goethals
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Forensic Psychiatry ◽  
Psychiatric Treatment ◽  
Forensic Patients ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Outcome Monitoring ◽  
Forensic Psychiatric ◽  
The University

IntroductionBy means of ROM, the efficacy of forensic psychiatric treatment can be measured in domains of risk of recidivism, level of psychopathology, and quality of life. Although, research of the efficacy of this treatment has several methodological pitfalls.ObjectivesTo review the literature of ROM in forensic psychiatry; to consider the way of implementing ROM; to present relevant instruments in the domains as mentioned above.AimsTo investigate whether forensic psychiatric treatment leads to less symptoms, and a decrease of reoffending; to investigate the correlation between degrees of psychopathology and quality of life.MethodsPatients are recruited from the University Forensic Center (UFC), Antwerp, Belgium, which is a outpatient facility for treatment of sex offenders. In the future patients from other facilities will be included. Several instruments are used to measure the degree of psychopathology, risk of recidivism, and quality of life.ResultsPreliminary results are presented and discussed in this paper.

Fitness, Responsibility, and Judicially Ordered Assessments

1998 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 491-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurice M Ohayon ◽  
Anne Crocker ◽  
Bernard St-Onge ◽  
M Caulet
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
Psychotic Disorders ◽  
Criminal Responsibility ◽  
Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Fitness To Stand Trial ◽  
Not Criminally Responsible ◽  
Forensic Psychiatric ◽  
Good Agreement

Objective: To compare the characteristics of individuals assessed for fitness to stand trial (FST) with those assessed for criminal responsibility (CR). Method: This study examines all the consecutive requests of FST or CR addressed to the only forensic psychiatric hospital in the province of Quebec and 2 prisons in the Montreal area over a 1-year period. Results: In all, 170 FST, 52 CR, and 29 both FST and CR assessment requests were received (251 subjects). Psychiatrists' recommendations and court verdicts of unfitness to stand trial or not criminally responsible on account of mental disorders were mostly related to the presence of a psychotic-spectrum disorder. There is generally a good agreement between psychiatric recommendations and verdicts of the court, with the exception of unfitness recommendations. Conclusions: Defendants referred for a FST or a CR assessment displayed similar characteristics. However, although subjects with psychotic disorders represented more than one-half of the unfit or not criminally responsible verdicts, most of the subjects with psychoses were found competent to stand trial or responsible.

scholarly journals Laboratory Testing of Active and Passive UHF RFID Tags

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Kolarovszki ◽  
Zuzana Kolarovszká ◽  
Dragan Perakovic ◽  
Marko Periša
Keyword(s):  
Laboratory Testing ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Automatic Identification ◽  
Rfid Technology ◽  
Uhf Rfid ◽  
Passive Uhf Rfid ◽  
Transport Unit ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Passive Rfid ◽  
The University

Abstract This article deals with research of laboratory testing by active and passive UHF tags and therefore mutual coexistence of active and passive RFID technology, which is a part of automatic identification and data capture. In this article we would like to describe an identification of transport unit based on passive technology and also by active technology. We would like to specify, how this technologies can work together and in which application focuses on postal and logistics. All results are verified by measurement in our AIDC laboratory, which is located at the University of Žilina. Our research contains different types of measurements in order to point out the possible influence of these two technologies. The results of our research bring the new point of view and indicate the ways using of UHF RFID technology in postal and logistics applications. At the end of this article is characterized the utilization of the RFID technology in postal logistics chain by using both passive and active technologies.

University of California Davis Forensic Psychiatry and California Department of State Hospitals Collaboration

2021 ◽  
pp. 85-106
Author(s):  
Charles Scott ◽  
Barbara McDermott ◽  
Katherine Warburton
Keyword(s):  
Forensic Psychiatry ◽  
Hospital Staff ◽  
University Of California ◽  
California Department ◽  
Hospital System ◽  
Forensic Evaluations ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
State Hospitals ◽  
Forensic Psychiatric ◽  
The University

The collaboration described in this chapter involves the Department of Psychiatry in the medical school at the University of California, Davis, and the California Department of State Hospitals. For more than 20 years, this partnership has involved placing forensic psychiatry fellows in state hospitals operated by the state of California. In addition to the high-quality forensic psychiatric services delivered by these fellows, the partnership has also included consultation and on-site forensic evaluations conducted by supervising faculty, continuing education and training provided to hospital staff, and applied research conducted on questions directly relevant to practice. It serves as a national model for a well-operated, long-standing partnership between academic psychiatry and a publicly operated hospital system.

Psychological mechanisms of the formation of non-psychotic mental disorders in patients with hyperthyroidism

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
pp. S151-S151
Author(s):  
O. Pityk ◽  
M. Pityk ◽  
I. Kuzhda
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Psychotic Disorders ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Depressive Syndrome ◽  
Level Of Functioning ◽  
Psychological Mechanisms ◽  
Planning Strategies ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
Meaningful Relationships ◽  
Medical Programs

The application of a comprehensive, integrative, systemic approach to the examination of patients with abnormal thyroid gland has to lie in the basis of planning strategies and tactics of medical programs such patients. On this point of view we consider that non- psychotic mental disorders are developing on the basis of both organic and adaptation levels. Population researches showed that the majority of patients with endocrinological pathology suffer from one of the three DCPR syndromes: irritant mood, demoralization thrown in (desperation), persistant somatization. The task of our work was to investigate mechanisms of psychological defense in patients with hyperthyroidism with non-psychotic mental disorders. One hundred and twenty-five patients were examined. Non-psychotic mental disorders with different syndromologic structure were found in 76% of patients (study group), among which anxious-asthenic (38.95%), anxiety and depression (23.16%) were dominant. The method of Robert Plutchik for assessment of the mechanisms of defense was used. In asthenic syndrome we found excessive functioning of negation and regression, inadequate functioning of intellectualization. In patients with astheno-anxious syndrome inadequate functioning of negation, intellectualization, compensation, and excessive repression contributed to the formation of the sensations of anxiety. Excessive compensation, projection, reactive formation generally affected the structure of the asteno-depressive syndrome. The lack of displacing of reactive formation, repression and excessive intellectualization in a complex influenced to the structuring of anxious-depressive syndrome. In hypochondrical syndrome projection, regression and negation were the basis of the formation of clinical picture. Thus, meaningful relationships between intrapsychic level of functioning and syndromological structure of non-psychotic disorders were installed.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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