Olof Svensson

Doctoral Student

Department of Psychiatry and

Neurochemistry

Mail

olof.svensson@gu.se

Visiting address

SU Rättspsykiatri, Rågårdsvägen 5

Enhet CELAM, Hus 1 Gunnilse

Postal address

Centrum för etik, juridik och mental hälsa Rågården, Hus 1

SU-Östra sjukhuset 416 85 Göteborg

About Olof Svensson

PhD Student, MSc, Licensed Psychologist

Olof Svensson is a licensed psychologist, specialized in forensic psychology: He has worked several years with forensic psychiatric evaluations and risk assessment of life time prisoners within the National Board of Forensic Mental Health. Currently he’s working as quality manager for the forensic psychiatric department of the board. His scientific interest was previously in psychopathy, but now he’s a doctoral student within the research project “The decision making process in forensic psychiatric evaluations: theory and practice”. Research Group CELAM - Centre for Ethics, Law and Mental Health

Publications

Decision-Making Within Forensic Psychiatric Investigations: The Use of Various Information Sources by Different Expert Groups to Reach Conclusions on Legal
Insanity

Lizel Göranson, Olof Svensson, Peter Andiné, Sara Bromander, Ann-Sophie Lindqvist Bagge, Malin Hildebrand Karlén
Frontiers in Psychiatry - 2022-01-01
The decision-making process in Swedish forensic psychiatric
investigations.

Olof Svensson, Peter Andiné, Sara Bromander, Karl Ask, Ann-Sophie Lindqvist Bagge, Malin Hildebrand Karlén
International journal of law and psychiatry - 2022-01-01
Associations Between Conduct Disorder, Neurodevelopmental Problems and Psychopathic Personality Traits in a Swedish Twin Youth
Population

Olof Svensson, Karolina Sörman, Natalie Durbeej, Paul Lichtenstein, Henrik Anckarsäter, Nora Kerekes, Thomas Nilsson
Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment - 2018-01-01
Boldness and its relation to psychopathic personality: Prototypicality analyses among forensic mental health, criminal justice, and layperson
raters.

Karolina Sörman, John F Edens, Shannon Toney Smith, John W Clark, Marianne Kristiansson, Olof Svensson
Law and human behavior - 2016-01-01
Sekretess hinder för hantering av
högriskindivider.

Marianne Kristiansson, Olof Svensson, Peter Andiné, Joakim Sturup, K Sörman
Svenska Dagbladet - 2014-01-01
Forensic mental health professionals' perceptions of psychopathy: a prototypicality analysis of the Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality in
Sweden.

Karolina Sörman, John F Edens, Shannon Toney Smith, Olof Svensson, Katarina Howner, Marianne Kristiansson, Håkan Fischer
Law and human behavior - 2014-01-01