Karin Trägårdh
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Department of Psychiatry and NeurochemistryAbout Karin Trägårdh
Karin Trägårdh is a doctor in medical sciences, and a registered clinical psychologist, specialised in clinical/forensic psychology, working at the Department of Forensic Psychiatry at Sahlgrenska University Hospital (SU). Karin has also previously worked for several years at the Swedish National Board of Forensic Medicine (RMV), at the Department of Forensic Psychiatry, conducting forensic psychiatric investigations and risk assessments of lifetime prisoners. Additionally, she has worked at the Swedish National Board of Institutional Care (SiS) with care and treatment for young people with psychosocial problems, substance abuse and criminal behaviour and/or who have been sentenced to secure youth care. Karin has focused her research on Female Offenders of Lethal and Severe Violence - Mental Health, Risk Factors for Criminality and Offence Behaviour Female Offenders of Lethal and Severe Violence - Mental Health, Risk Factors for Criminality and Offence Behaviour.
Women who commit severe and lethal violent crime, including homicide, have only to a limited extent been subjected to systematic studies both nationally and internationally. However, according to previous studies of female and male perpetrators of lethal/severe violence, there exist significant differences and a need to study female and male perpetrators separately. The fact that our knowledge of the female perpetrators of lethal and severe violence is limited has consequences for our ability to identify potential perpetrators, victims and act preventively. Thus, there is a need to further chart female homicide offenders in terms of mental health, risk factors of aggressive antisocial criminality, offence behaviour and victim-offender relationship to identify the aspects that characterise female offenders of severe and lethal violent crime.
Research group Centre for Ethics, Law and Mental Health, University of Gothenburg (gu.se)