Death in custody is defined as a death taking place in the custody of the police, prison service, involuntary patients in psychiatric institutions or in the custody of other authorities; independent of the cause or manner of death.. In this article we wanted to analyze the main features of the death in custody in Romania. The study was conducted using data obtained from the Romanian National Penitentiary Administration from 2003 to 2008; data was included in, and analyzed using the Microsoft Excel 2007 software. The main results we have obtained are (1) the medium number of prisoners, mortality and morbidity have declined from 2003 to 2008, whilst the mortality and morbidity rates remained almost constant. By analyzing the causes of death we identified a significant decrease in the number of non-violent deaths, whilst the number of violent deaths remained almost constant. The most frequent non-lethal pathologies were respiratory, gastrointestinal and dermatological whilst the most frequently lethal pathologies were cardiovascular and neoplastic. A violent manner of death was identified in a minority of cases, and was usually represented by suicides (by hanging). In conclusion, the matter of death in penitentiaries in Romania is mostly non-violent, with cardiovascular and neoplastic disorders being the most frequent lethal pathologies. The relative number of violent deaths has increased in the last years, suggesting the need for more strict rules and regulations.
This study discusses 597 cases of functional psychosis with an average evolution of over 10 years and a stable diagnostic over the last 5 years, found in the outpatient service of Timisoara.The cases are part of the project entitled The Timisoara Project of Typology and Evolution of Functional Psychosis, initiated with a Case Register since 1985 to date.The research team has since remained unaltered and for all the cases there was a permanent record of psychopathological episodes upon admissions, clinical evolution and treatment between episodes, socio-demographic dynamics, as well as other types of evaluation.The assessments were made at 1 year after onset, and respectively after 5, 10 and 15 years. The stability or metamorphosis along time of these diagnostics was evaluated, as well as other clinical parameters from onset to present days. The approach has allowed for the parallel study of the following casuistry (understood both as episode and constant disorder): schizophrenia, persistent delusional disorder, bipolar disorder with or without delusional ideation, major depressive disorder with or without delusional ideation, schizoaffective disorder (with various subtypes). The casuistry has evidenced delusional disorder as being distinct from schizophrenia, both in terms of independent evolution, as well as in association with affective pathology.
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