Forensic psychiatry & mental health law

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NON-EUROPEAN MIGRANTS WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA SPECTRUM DISORDERS IN SWISS FORENSIC AND GENERAL PSYCHIATRIC CARE FACILITIES - A COMPARATIVE STUDY USING MACHINE LEARNING.

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It is a descriptive, hypothesis-generating comparison from one Swiss service; it identifies plausible correlates of forensic rather than general placement (notably far less prior treatment contact among forensic patients, consistent with service disengagement preceding justice involvement) but establishes no causal pathway and validates no instrument. Nothing here changes an evaluation, a report, or a duty, and the small sample with 174 candidate predictors leaves real overfitting risk, so it should not be cited as a basis for individual risk statements.

Forensic Sci Int. 2026;385:112976.