OBJECTIVES: To review studies defining risk factors for infectious disease transmission in
correctional settings, to determine target objectives, and to assemble recommendations for …

Background Forensic psychiatry is a particular subspecialty within psychiatry, dedicated in
applying psychiatric knowledge and psychiatric training for particular legal purposes. Given …

The significant progress of psychiatry in the 20th century provided a sophisticated theoretical
framework to analyze the complex relationships between crime and mental illness …

The principle of “equivalence of care” in prison medicine is a principle by which prison
health services are obliged to provide prisoners with care of a quality equivalent to that …

Background Little is known about the health status of prisoners in Switzerland. The aim of
this study was to provide a detailed description of the health problems presented by …

OBJECTIVE: The aims of this study were to determine the prevalence of psychiatric
symptoms and complaints among remand prisoners in Switzerland and to analyze the …

It is difficult to estimate the true prevalence of sexual interest in children, but some studies
indicate that pedophile fantasies are not rare in the general population (Briere & Runtz …

We present a series of 12 cases of violent crime, which were all committed under the
influence of cannabis in Geneva, Switzerland, between 1996 and 2000. The crimes were …

The mission of the European Committee for the prevention of torture and inhuman or
degrading treatment or punishment (CPT) is to visit all places where people are detained …

Background data on psychosocial characteristics of sexual offenders are sparse in Europe.
From 67 experts' reports done between 1982 and 1995 in Geneva, Switzerland …