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Abstract: Under the Belgian Social Defence Law (1964), mentally disordered offenders who are deemed to lack criminal responsibility have to be interned in an ‘Institution of Social Defence’ rather than in a prison. There, they are supposed to receive specialised treatment before their rehabilitation and re-insertion into the community. This paper discusses expertise practice in relation to the Social Defence Law. The paper first gives a description of the requirements of the law. The paper then presents the prevalence of clinical syndromes (axis 1) and of personality disorders (axis 2) among a sample of internees (N =98). The sample presents a high co-morbidity (2.6) of axis I syndromes, and of axis 2 personality disorders (1.7), the majority of them (64%) present both axis diagnoses. The paper also discusses the prevalence of a high psychopathy as measured by the PCL-R among internees (5-8%) as compared to prison inmates given the aim of the law of protecting the society against dangerous individuals. The paper shows that the Social Defence Law embraces a very large spectrum of psychiatric diagnoses including personality disorders and psychopathy. The following recommendations could improve expertise practices: (a) the consideration of earlier propositions relating to the improvement of the Social Defence Law; (b) a comparative research between psychiatric diagnoses of internees and of inmates; (c) a better definition of clinical criteria relating to the application of the law; (d) the implementation of a specialised observation unit before the decision to intern; (e) the need to go beyond a dichotomous conception of the ability to control; (f) the consideration of contextual factor of dangerousness; (g) encouraging the use of validated risk and clinical assessment instruments; (h) a better financing for expert work. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

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Abstract: In opposition to a widespread belief in psychiatry, mental disorders per se, without alcohol or drug abuse, represent a risk for violence against others, including homicide, that is significantly higher than that of the general population. The present paper extensively reviews the scientific literature during the past 15 years and present their findings in a summary table. The contradictory results of the notorious McArthur study are also presented and critically discussed. Elevated risks of assaults are more closely associated with a subgroup of patients showing one or more of the following characteristics: a history of previous violence; non compliance with antipsychotic medication and follow-up; alcohol and/or illegal drug abuse; violent fantasies; acute psychotic symptoms; and cerebral damage. Although violence associated with mental disorders is significantly higher than that observed among the general population, the absolute number of assaults committed by patients is still low. Between 85 and 97% of violent offenders are not mentally ill. Certain aspects of the deinstitutionalization, such as lack of outpatient resources and a modification of the law reflecting more concerns for the rights of the patients might provoke health care interruptions. However, a clinical commitment relayed by legal interventions in case of danger generate significant reduction of the risks for violence. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

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This paper focuses on the discussion and presentation of data from a study about the representation of mental illness and mental health in the Portuguese press in different decades, from the empirical analysis of informative articles in two newspapers with a different genesis and objectives, Público and Correio da Manhã. First we propose a discussion on the role of newspapers in the representation of mental health and mental illness and its social implications, addressing different theoretical perspectives that alert to the issues of stigma, labeling and the association of mental illness with violence, the inability of recovery, rehabilitation and reintegration into society. The empirical analysis was made from the collection of articles focusing on issues related to mental health and mental illness published in two daily newspapers in 1990, 2000 and 2010. Among other issues, the results of this analysis show that, in general, people who suffer or have suffered from mental illness appear in the press by the representation made of them by specific entities that contribute to the particular forms that the news are constructed.

This paper briefly recalls principles which control the classification in category conduct disorders in the “French Classification of Children and Adolescent Mental Disorders R-2000”. (CFTMEA R-2000). [Copyright &y& Elsevier]