The Characteristics of Patients with Intellectual Disabilities Held in Forensic Asylums in Norway: 1915–1987

Erik Søndenaa; Camilla Gudde; Øyvind Thomassen

doi:10.16993/sjdr.1

The Characteristics of Patients with Intellectual Disabilities Held in Forensic Asylums in Norway: 1915–1987

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

Volume 20 (2018): Issue 1

By: Erik Søndenaa, Camilla Gudde and Øyvind Thomassen

Open Access

|Feb 2018

Abstract

A significant number of patients with intellectual disability (ID) were admitted to forensic mental health asylums during the period 1915–1987. Many of these patients stayed for more than a decade, because of previous offending behaviour. We investigated the daily lives of 262 patients with an ID using casebooks. Two of the patients were studied more in detail. The available documents describe most of these patients as sociable, well-behaved and socially engaged although they missed having contacts outside the hospital. Long-stay patients were studied more in detail.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/sjdr.1 | Journal eISSN: 1745-3011

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Language: English

Page range: 131 - 138

Submitted on: Jan 24, 2017

Accepted on: Jan 24, 2017

Published on: Feb 1, 2018

Published by: Stockholm University Press

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Keywords:

Intellectual disabilities,

Forensic,

Mental health

© 2018 Erik Søndenaa, Camilla Gudde, Øyvind Thomassen, published by Stockholm University Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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