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Depression
Research conducted at Warneford Hospital, Department of Psychiatry has provided new information about depression in adolescents
May 3rd, 2008
A report, 'Psychopathology in adolescent and young adult criminal offenders (15-21 years) in Sweden,' is newly published data in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. According to a study from Oxford, the United Kingdom, "This study examined rates of psychopathology among adolescent and young adult serious offenders referred to pre-sentence forensic psychiatric services and compared patterns of psychiatric morbidity with adult forensic referrals and age-matched general psychiatric inpatients. In Sweden, criminal offenders can be referred for an extensive court-ordered pre-sentence inpatient forensic psychiatric examination (FPE)." "Data on all 3,058 of...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-05-03)
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