Acquitted of a crime, sentenced to psychiatric care and sterilised at SSS

This paper is a follow-up study about the patients that were coercively sterilised and discharged from Sankt Sigfrids’ psychiatric hospital in Växjö during the time period of 1945-1952. The study aims to investigate how the patients suffered from social deprivation in various ways using social deprivation- and gender theory. Furthermore, it focuses on the patients that were sentenced to forensic psychiatric care instead of prison in order to answer the question of whether or not there are any differences between the crimes that were committed by men or women, to demonstrate social norms. The results discuss how the patients’ crimes differed depending on whether they were male or female, and how the crimes themselves as well as the female sexuality affected how long the treatment lasted at the psychiatric hospital. Additionally, the various characteristics that point to social deprivation according to table nr. 3 are discussed, for example how the patients’ education could have looked like.