Background:

Forensic Psychiatry is the application of psychiatric knowledge to the justice administration process.

Objective:

to describe the behavior of social reintegration in the Forensic Psychiatry Unit of Sancti Spiritus.

Methods:

the results of the study of the behavior of the insured in the Forensic Psychiatry Unit of Sancti Spiritus 2016 to 2018 are communicated.

Results:

it predominates the age group between 24 to 35 years, male sex, paranoid schizophrenia with atypical neuroleptics as modality of most commonly used psycho-pharmacological treatment. Positive changes were achieved, which helped the request to cease the measure with its subsequent social reintegration.

Conclusions:

with the integral application of therapies, changes are achieved that allow social reintegration, reducing the risk that they may commit crimes or be violent in the future.

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