The Clinical Features of Victims and Offenders Admitted to the Forensic Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic: A Singlecenter Retrospective Analysis

Year 2022, Volume: 23 Issue: 2, 220 - 226, 30.06.2022

Yaşan Bilge Şair , Bilge Doğan Musa Dirlik

Abstract

Objective: We determined the characteristics of forensic cases who were asked for psychiatry consultation.
Materials and Methods: Forensic reports prepared between 01.06.2016 and 31.12.2017 were examined retrospectively.
Results: One hundred seventy-seven files were examined, 72 were affected/ victims,105 were perpetrators. The victims were older (p=0.008). Males (p<0.0001), unemployees (p=0.026), singles/divorces, psychotic and bipolar disorder and addiction (p<0.0001), and involvement in the judicial cases were higher in the perpetrators (p=0.026), (p=0.013). Exposure to sexual abuse, sexual violence, physical abuse, physical neglect was higher in victims (p<0.0001).
Conclusion: One of our primary goals is to speed up the evaluation times of patients and to make decisions in a shorter time in the forensic committees conducted by the forensic medicine and psychiatry departments at our university.

Keywords

Forensic psychiatry , retrospective , victim , perpetrator

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