Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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100881 | International Journal of Law and Psychiatry | 2014 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
This article addresses the long-standing continuities in the history of the Italian forensic psychiatric units and views them as the result of conflicting forces, interests, mentalities and strategies at the cross-road of forensic psychiatry, psychiatry, prison and health services. It focuses on the period from the 1960s to the present and deals with, among other issues, the long-term impact of the anti-asylum movements and the on-going debate on the ‘phasing out’ of the forensic psychiatric units.
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Authors
Christian Giuseppe De Vito,