The present study was designed to compare gender differences in psychiatric diagnosis
with the dimension of psychopathy in women and men who had attempted or committed …

Understudied is psychopathy in females, particularly socially dangerous NGRI females,
where the construct could be of forensic, clinical and criminologic significance. Italy's recent …

Various studies have shown that women with psychopathy tend to commit crimes that are
less violent than those of psychopathic men. The present study was designed to address the …

Over the years, the number of homicides in Italy has progressively decreased, ultimately
becoming one of the lowest rates in Europe (357 = 0.7 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2017, …

Before its closure on April 1, 2015, the Castiglione delle Stiviere was the only maximum-security
hospital in Italy that admitted women. In this context, the investigators examined factors …

The main objective of this study was to compare readmitted (RW) and non-readmitted (NRW)
female psychiatric patients after being conditionally or unconditionally released from Italian …

The authors present an unusual criminal case of delusionally motivated, serial intrafamilial
killings by a psychotic offender. Because the offender retained instrumental rationality and …

With the increase in migrants entering Italy and being admitted to forensic inpatient facilities
in recent years, it is important to identify differences in this population that could inform …

I sex offender rappresentano un gruppo eterogeneo di autori di reato con motivazioni varie.
Le evidenze scientifiche suggeriscono che questi autori di reato, in larga parte sono affetti …

Dopo la chiusura degli Ospedali Psichiatrici (OP), nel 2012 il Governo Italiano ha deciso di
chiudere gli Ospedali Psichiatrici Giudiziari, gli OPG. La legge 81/2014 stabiliva che ogni …