Mentally disordered offenders in Sweden: differentiating recidivists from non-recidivists in a 10-year follow-up study
Journal: Nordic Journal of Psychiatry
Year: 2016

Signs of childhood adversities together with early debut in criminality appeared as important risk factors for general and violent recidivism. Forensic psychiatric treatment combined with a restriction order was demonstrated as a protective factor against recidivism, suggesting that the risk of recidivism is strongly related to the level of supervision. Although the low number of recidivism cases is highly desirable, it unfortunately reduces the power of the analyses in this paper.