Citation

De Vito CG. Int. J. Law Psychiatry 2014; 37(1): 127-134.

Affiliation

International Institute of Social History, PO Box 2169, 1000 CD, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Electronic address: cdv8@leicester.ac.uk.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.ijlp.2013.09.012

PMID

24125959

Abstract

This article addresses the long-standing continuities in the history of the Italian forensic psychiatric units and views them as the result of conflicting forces, interests, mentalities and strategies at the cross-road of forensic psychiatry, psychiatry, prison and health services. It focuses on the period from the 1960s to the present and deals with, among other issues, the long-term impact of the anti-asylum movements and the on-going debate on the 'phasing out' of the forensic psychiatric units.

Language: en