U.S., Sept. 10 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07162909) titled 'The Time Before the Crime - Risk Patterns in Offenders Undergoing a Forensic Psychiatric Evaluation' on June 23.
Brief Summary: The overarching aim of the research project is to identify risk patterns preceding criminal acts among individuals later subject to forensic psychiatric evaluation (FPE) in Sweden, including factors within psychiatric care as well as broader individual or contextual factors.
Although individuals who undergo an FPE represent a small subset of all individuals who commit criminal acts, the implications of being sentenced to forensic psychiatric care are profound. In Sweden, approximately 300 individuals are ...