Citation

Briken P, Welzel K, Habermann N, Hill A, Berner W. Psychiatr. Prax. 2009; 36(5): 232-237.

Vernacular Title

Antiandrogene Therapie und Lockerungen bei Sexualstraftatern im Massregelvollzug

Affiliation

Institut für Sexualforschung und Forensische Psychiatrie, Zentrum für Psychosoziale Medizin, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg. briken@uke.uni-hamburg.de

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, Georg Thieme Verlag)

DOI

10.1055/s-0028-1090221

PMID

19437383

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Evaluation of the relationship between antiandrogenic therapy of sexual offenders and home leave steps in a forensic psychiatric hospital. METHODS: Retrospective evaluation of all sexual offenders (n = 79) who were treated in the forensic psychiatric hospital Berlin between the 1.1.1998 and the 1.1.2005. RESULTS: There is an increase in the number of patients treated with antiandrogenic medication during the observed time period. Patients under this kind of pharmacotherapy receive higher grades of home leave steps. CONCLUSIONS: As possible reasons for the observed changes we discuss the contemporaneous implementation of a new pharmacotherapeutic treatment option (LHRH-agonists) and an aggravation of the German criminal law for sexual offenders.

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