GMFP 2026 - 15 articles
Online | 24–25 April 2026
Volume Editors:
Manuela Dudeck, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany
Judith Streb, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany
Michael Fritz, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany
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Background: Substance use disorder (SUD) is common among persons who commit violent crimes, and it is an important factor to address within forensic psychiatric care (FPC) to reduce the risk for violent crime relapse. Community reinforcement approach...
Background: Across jurisdictions, forensic psychiatry evaluations primarily rely on clinical assessment, psychometric testing, and historical and behavioural information. Following advances in neuroscience and neurolaw, there is a growing interest in...
Background: The involvement of people with lived experience in psychiatric research is gaining momentum internationally, yet forensic psychiatry remains largely absent from this development—particularly in Germany. Highly regulated settings, st...
Introduction: Aggression in early-stage mental disorders imposes a substantial clinical and societal burden and is shaped by environmental, neurobiological, and genetic factors. Understanding their joint contribution could aid risk assessment and ear...
Background: Indirect measurement methods play a central role in the assessment of deviant sexual interests, including pedohebephilia. Among these approaches, eye-tracking paradigms that assess gaze behavior may serve as indirect indicators of deviant...
Background: Research in behavioral genetics has demonstrated that genetic factors significantly contribute to individual differences in behavior, while environmental exposures shape gene expression through epigenetic mechanisms. This interaction is a...
Background: The risk of violence is elevated in patients with Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders (SSD). However, current violence risk assessment approaches rely predominantly on clinical and historical factors and remain limited in predictive accuracy...
Background: This presentation is based on a paper that was published last year in the peer-reviewed journal Recht & Psychiatrie [1]. The study investigates consumption patterns in patients who have been diagnosed with a substance use disorder and...
Background: Aggression and violence are complex behavioral phenomena with substantial biological underpinnings involving immune activation and lipid metabolism. Previous evidence has linked inflammatory signaling and altered cholesterol homeostasis t...
Background: People in prison have a higher prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) compared to the general population. This has been found across different cultural contexts. While treatment programs for people in prison have moderate comp...
Background: Research involving particularly vulnerable patient populations represents a central ethical challenge in contemporary medicine. On the one hand, inclusion of these groups is essential to ensure evidence-based care and to prevent health in...
Patients in forensic mental health services (FMHS) with co-occurring mental disorders (MD), substance use disorders (SUD), and a history of violent crime—often referred to as the “triply troubled”—represent one of the most cli...
Background: Forensic concepts should be guided by current evidence. However, there is currently a lack of even basic information on individuals who have committed a criminal offence in relation to a mental disorder in Germany. Methods: The CONNECT pr...
The field of forensic psychiatry holds a unique position at the intersection of mental health care, neuroscience, psychology, criminology, ethics, and law [...]
