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Violent offenders as a target population for Public Mental Health Care

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JOURNAL OF FORENSIC AND LEGAL MEDICINE
Volume 40, Issue -, Pages 54-57

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ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jflm.2016.03.003

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Violent offenders; Delinquents; Public health care; Public Mental Health Care; Self-Sufficiency Matrix

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The study sought to specify which part of a population of young adult violent offenders in Amsterdam (mean age 24.9 years, sd = 8.2) were eligible for Public Mental Health Care (PMHC). The results of a semi-structured clinical interview were used (N = 454), which included the Self-Sufficiency Matrix (SSM-D). Using the SSM-D and two distinct definitions of what constitutes a need for PMHC, the size of the PMHC target population was determined twice. Depending on which definition was used, 35.9% (mathematical algorithm which put weights to single SSM-D domains) and 34.8% (problematic levels of self-sufficiency on a selection of domains) appeared to be eligible for entering the PMHC system. The study confirms that a substantial proportion of vulnerable people are among the forensic population. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd and Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine. All rights reserved.

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