Considering the gender specifics of criminal behavior in forensic psychiatric preventive measures ¹²⁶⁸

For the purposes of development of differentiated criteria of prescription and cancellation of compulsory inpatient treatment considering the gender specifics, the authors carried out a com-parative analysis of clinical-psychopathological, socio-demographic and pathopsychological pe-culiarities of mentally ill persons of both genders undergoing compulsory treatment. 115 persons of both genders were examined – suffering from schizophrenia and organic mental disorders, who have committed offences and, under a court ruling, were prescribed with compulsory inpatient treatment in a psychiatric hospital of general and specialized types. The authors identified the indices which have a statistically significant influence on noso- and gender-specific predictors of aggressive and violent behavior of the examined persons. Thus, among the women with schizophrenia there was a dominance of personalities of a fairly high intellectual level who committed offences against family by a productive-psychotic mechanism. For the female patients suffering from organic mental disorders, the predictors of criminalization were the low cognitive level, auto-aggressive tendencies, dysphoric aggressiveness as a mechanism of crime.

Keywords: forensic psychiatric prevention measures, gender-specific predictors, aggressive and violent behavior, compulsory treatment, mechanism of crime commitment, offences of mentally ill women

Column: Forensic and clinical psychology in legal context