Forensic psychiatry & mental health law

Psychiatry & Law Radar

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CLINICAL AND FORENSIC CHARACTERISTICS OF PATIENTS ADMITTED TO A HIGH-INTENSITY PSYCHIATRIC RESIDENTIAL FACILITY BEFORE AND AFTER THE ITALIAN LAW 81/2014: A RETROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY.

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Admission pathways into one Italian high-intensity residential facility shifted sharply away from forensic referrals and toward acute psychiatric wards after the judicial psychiatric hospital closure deadline, with more complex diagnostic profiles recorded in the later cohort — though the single-site, uncensored and explicitly exploratory design cannot attribute any of it to Law 81/2014 or describe the post-OPG system as a whole.

Int J Law Psychiatry. 2026;110:102288.