Journal of Psychology & Psychotherapy
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Closing Italian high security hospitals: A new treatments model

Joint Event on 3^rd International Conference on Forensic Psychology & Criminology & 3^rd International Congress on Addictive Behavior and Dual Diagnosis

August 16-17, 2018 | Stockholm, Sweden

Felice Carabellese

University of Bari, Italy

Keynote: J Psychol Psychother

Abstract :

In the past, in Italy the treatment of mentally ill offenders at risk for recidivism (�??dangerous to the society�?�) was entrusted by the Judicial Psychiatric Hospital (OPG). The OPG facilities were high security hospitals, directly managed by the Ministry of Justice. The six Italian OPG hospitals accommodated about 1,000 patients collectively. These patients were offenders who, with regard to our penal code, were adjudicated not guilty (or partially guilty) by reason of insanity for their criminal offense because they suffered from a severe mental disorder at the time of the crime and were found to be �??dangerous to the society�?�. A recent law (Law n.9, February the 17th 2012) ratified the closure of the OPG hospitals (March the 31st 2015), which have been replaced by rehabilitation communities placed across all Italian regions, controlled by the National Health System on the model of what occurs in Italy for all the other mentally ill individuals. This presentation explains all the steps that have been made in the transition to this new program.

Biography :

Felice Carabellese, is an Italian Psychology Professor working in University of Bari, Italy. His research achievements are in Forensic Psychiatry. He completed his degree in Medicine from University of Bari in 1986. He started his carrier as a Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at University of Bari, since 2002 with Italian Army.

E-mail: felicefrancesco.carabellese@uniba.it