title: Reconviction after discharge from a regional secure unit.
abstract: There are at present no published data on criminal conviction following discharge from medium-secure psychiatric facilities in the United Kingdom. The results of an audit at the Kent Forensic Psychiatry Service found a 7% rate for serious offences in an average follow-up period of three years and five months, a figure similar to high-security hospital studies. Only one serious offence was unknown to the clinical team. Reports on larger samples are awaited.
authors.affiliation: Kent Forensic Psychiatry Service, Trevor Gibbens Unit, Maidstone.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Falla
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sugarman
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Roberts
mesh_terms: D003415:Crime / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004739:England; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders; D010351:Patient Discharge / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*