The medico-legal status of young sex offenders: forensic psychiatric evaluations in Sweden 1988–1995
✍ Scribed by Niklas Långström; Martin Grann
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 100 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0735-3936
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✦ Synopsis
Young sex oenders (YSOs) attract signi®cant public and professional concern. YSOs might be perceived as more psychologically deviant or dangerous than other oenders. This study focused on how often YSOs subjected to forensic psychiatric investigation (FPI) were declared medico-legally insane as compared to young non-sex oenders and adult sex oenders. Logistic regression models were applied to data from all major FPIs performed in Sweden between 1988 and 1995 (N 4354) to explore factors aecting the likelihood of receiving a medico-legal insanity declaration. When we adjusted for the statistical eects of age, sex oender status, and psychopathology, YSOs (n 47) were three to four times more likely to be declared insane in the medico-legal sense. The results indicate that YSOs in Sweden constitute a medico-legally distinct subgroup of forensic psychiatric examinees.