Healthcare research in forensic commitment or poking around in the dark : Consensus paper on the necessity for more uniform and better data

Complex trends in occupancy determined by many influencing factors, clear state-specific differences in imprisonment practices as well as recently implemented statutory alterations to the appropriate paragraphs in criminal law, underline the necessity for qualitative high-grade concomitant research...

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Published inNervenarzt Vol. 88; no. 11; p. 1292
Main Authors Querengässer, J, Bezzel, A, Hoffmann, K, Mache, W, Schiffer, B
Format Journal Article
LanguageGerman
Published Germany 01.11.2017
Subjects
Commitment of Mentally Ill - legislation & jurisprudence
Commitment of Mentally Ill - trends
Data Collection - legislation & jurisprudence
Data Collection - trends
Forecasting
Germany
Health Services Needs and Demand - legislation & jurisprudence
Health Services Needs and Demand - trends
Health Services Research - legislation & jurisprudence
Health Services Research - trends
Humans
Surveys and Questionnaires
Forensics
Data protection
Survey instrument
Epidemiology
Individual case data
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Summary:Complex trends in occupancy determined by many influencing factors, clear state-specific differences in imprisonment practices as well as recently implemented statutory alterations to the appropriate paragraphs in criminal law, underline the necessity for qualitative high-grade concomitant research of German forensic commitment; however, neither the structural prerequisites nor an adequate data situation are currently present in order to do justification to this aim. Not even the total number of patients currently accommodated in forensic commitment can be elucidated from the publicized (partial) statistics. This consensus paper, which was formulated by three research institutes active at the state level, describes the limited possibilities for current forensic healthcare research and raises the demand for a nationwide uniform data situation on patients in forensic commitment. Furthermore, how the appropriate elicitation instrument should be organizationally and structurally achieved, is sketched from a scientific perspective. This article aims at initiating a discussion on a sustainable improvement in the prerequisites for healthcare research in German forensic commitment and targets a sensitization of decision makers in politics and administration for this topic.
ISSN:1433-0407