Self-control in criminology: we need a broader conceptualization and links to psychiatric diagnoses.

Background: Poor self-control is a strong correlate of criminal propensity. It is conceptualized and operationalized differently in criminology than in other scientific traditions.

Aims: (1) To verify the dimensionality of the criminological Grasmick self-control items, other self-regulation items and morality ones.

An examination of the interaction between morality and self-control in offending: A study of differences between girls and boys.

Background: There is a well-documented gender difference in offending, with evidence that boys, on average, are more involved in crime than girls. Opinions differ, however, on whether the causes of crime apply to girls and boys similarly.

Aims: Our aim is to explore crime propensity in boys and girls.

The duality of suffering and trust: abused women's experiences of general psychiatric care--an interview study.

Aims And Objectives: To elucidate how women subjected to physical, emotional and/or sexual abuse experience the care provided at a general psychiatric clinic after the disclosure of abuse.

Background: Violence against women is a major global public health issue, which has an impact on women's lives and mental health as well as generating frequent hospital admission.

Design: Qualitative design with an inductive approach.

Adolescents' utilisation of psychiatric care, neighbourhoods and neighbourhood socioeconomic deprivation: a multilevel analysis.

Mental health problems among adolescents have become a major public health issue, and it is therefore important to increase knowledge on the contextual determinants of adolescent mental health. One such determinant is the socioeconomic structure of the neighbourhood. The present study has two central objectives, (i) to examine if neighbourhood socioeconomic deprivation is associated to individual variations in utilisation of psychiatric care in a Swedish context, and (ii) to investigate if neighbourhood boundaries are a valid construct for identifying contexts that influence individual variations in psychiatric care utilization.

How are immigrant background and gender associated with the utilisation of psychiatric care among adolescents?

Purpose: To investigate how parental country of birth and individual gender affect utilisation of psychiatric care in adolescents.

Methods: On the basis of data from the Longitudinal Multilevel Analysis in Scania database, the article employs logistic regression to analyse the utilisation of psychiatric care among adolescents aged 13-18 (n = 92203) who were living in the southern Swedish county of Scania in 2005.

Results: Adolescents whose parents were born in middle- or low-income countries presented lower levels of psychiatric outpatient care utilisation than those with native parents.

Sex differences in offending trajectories in a Swedish cohort.

Background: Despite the increased interest in female offending trajectories over the last decades, knowledge is still limited.

Aim: To meet the need for more knowledge on female offending trajectories by studying sex differences in criminal career patterns.

Method: Data on 518 female and 2567 male offenders up to age 30 from the Swedish longitudinal Project Metropolitan study were analysed using latent class analysis.

Pathways to child and adolescent psychiatric clinics: a multilevel study of the significance of ethnicity and neighbourhood social characteristics on source of referral.

Background: In the Swedish society, as in many other societies, many children and adolescents with mental health problems do not receive the help they need. As the Swedish society becomes increasingly multicultural, and as ethnic and economic residential segregation become more pronounced, this study utilises ethnicity and neighbourhood context to examine referral pathways to child and adolescent psychiatric (CAP) clinics.

Methods: The analysis examines four different sources of referrals: family referrals, social/legal agency referrals, school referrals and health/mental health referrals.

Mentally disordered criminal offenders: legal and criminological perspectives.

Legal research in Sweden has traditionally focused on a systematization of the legal rules and their practical application, while the task of studying the effects of the application of the laws has been handed over to other branches of the social sciences. In contrast, new legal theories focusing on proactive and therapeutic dimensions in law have gained increasing attention in the international arena. These approaches may be better suited for evaluating legislation governing compulsory psychiatric care.