Gericke, Björn

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BMC Psychiatry
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On the outcome of the treatment of mentally disordered criminal 
offenders (according to §64 German penal code) suffering from 
addictive disorders
Björn Gericke* and Thomas Kallert
Address: Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Dresden, Fetscherstrasse 74, D-01307 Dresden, Germany
* Corresponding author    
Background
To present findings on criminal conviction and recidivism
rates of 277 criminal offenders ordered to a forensic psy-
chiatric facility caring for addictive disorders between
1996 and 2001.
Methods
Cluster- and regression-analytic procedures identified pre-
dictive variables for declaring the forensic psychiatric hos-
pitalization as useless, and for relevant criminal offences
after discharge.
Results
About 85% of the study sample showed more than four
offences and more than 1.5 years of imprisonment before
admission to the index-treatment episode. About half of
the patients was successfully treated as indicated by being
released on licence. Socialization in institutions, social
desintegration before admission, and absconding during
the index-treatment episode are important factors increas-
ing the probability of declaring the hospitalization as use-
less. In the 2-year observation period, the criminal
recidivism rate was 40.0%.
Conclusion
Social reintegration of this group of mentally disordered
criminal offenders is as difficult as important. Findings on
recidivism rates indicate a need for extending the number
of specialized forensic outpatient departments and a need
to focus on primary prevention.
from WPA Thematic Conference. Coercive Treatment in Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Review
Dresden, Germany. 6–8 June 2007
Published: 19 December 2007
BMC Psychiatry 2007, 7(Suppl 1):P12 doi:10.1186/1471-244X-7-S1-P12
<supplement> <title> <p>World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Thematic Conference. Coercive Treatment in Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Review</p> </title> <editor>Thomas W Kallert, John Monahan, Juan E Mezzich</editor> <note>Meeting abstracts – A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available <a href="http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-244X-7-S1-full.pdf">here</a>.</note> <url>http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-224X-7-S1-info.pdf</url> </supplement>
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