Abstract
This article reviews the laws in Sweden concerning mentally disordered offenders. It also contains some figures on the relationship between mentally disordered offenders and other offenders sentenced to prison. The rules in Sweden are very different from other countries in that the responsibility concept has been abolished and thus there is no acquittal on a psychiatric basis.
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Dr. Lidberg is professor, and Dr. Belfrage researcher at the Department of Social and Forensic Psychiatry, Karolinska Institute, S-141 04 Huddinge, Sweden.
- Copyright © 1991, The American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
