Revolutionary reform in psychiatric care in Italy: The abolition of forensic mental hospitals.

DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION; MENTAL illness; PSYCHIATRIC hospital laws; CRIMINOLOGISTS; VIOLENCE; ATTITUDE (Psychology); GOVERNMENT policy

The article offers information on the impact of deinstitutionalization of people with mental illness in Italy along with termination of forensic mental hospitals after the implementation of law in 1978. Topics discussed include criminologists in sound psychiatric predictions of violence becomes attractive to jurists and legislators; clinician work in formal partnership with personnel of criminal justice system; and psychiatric experts advise pragmatic spectrum from low risk of harm to others.