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1. Personality disorder and violent criminality : a follow-up study with special reference to psychopathy and risk assessment
Sammanfattning : Background: Structured models for the assessment of psychopathy and risk of violent recidivism have gained currency in forensic and correctional practice in many countries. The overall aim of this study was to test the predictive validity of some of these models among violent offenders with personality disorders in Sweden. LÄS MER
2. Violence among mentally disordered offenders : risk and protective factors
Sammanfattning : Background: Violence is one of the leading causes of unnatural deaths, and the consequences of violence for victims, victims families, offenders, and society at large involve extensive suffering and monetary costs. Improving strategies to prevent and reduce violence is of great importance, and refining techniques for risk assessments in forensic and correctional settings is assumed to be one way of doing so. LÄS MER
3. Violent female offenders : Facts and preconceptions
Sammanfattning : Women’s comparably low participation in criminal activity has resulted in little overall attention to female offenders in criminological research. The general aim of the present thesis is to illuminate aspects of particular significance for understanding female perpetrators of very serious crimes. LÄS MER
4. On Symmetries and Metrics in Geometric Inference
Sammanfattning : Spaces of data naturally carry intrinsic geometry. Statistics and machine learning can leverage on this rich structure in order to achieve efficiency and semantic generalization. Extracting geometry from data is therefore a fundamental challenge which by itself defines a statistical, computational and unsupervised learning problem. LÄS MER
5. Stochasticity in Biophysical Systems: Searching, Aging, and Spreading
Sammanfattning : The role of stochasticity throughout many biophysical systems is of great importance. From evolution to foraging, from the spreading of viruses to cell fate, all hinge in one way or another on inherent stochasticity. LÄS MER