Gérard Niveau

Summary

Affiliation: University Hospital
Country: Switzerland

Publications

  1. ncbi Criminal responsibility and cannabis use: psychiatric review and proposed guidelines
    Gérard Niveau
    Geneva University Institute of Forensic Medicine, Switzerland
    J Forensic Sci 47:451-8. 2002
  2. ncbi Psychiatric commitment: over 50 years of case law from the European Court of Human Rights
    G Niveau
    Department of Community Health and Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, IUML, Avenue de Champel 9, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
    Eur Psychiatry 21:427-35. 2006
  3. ncbi Health problems among detainees in Switzerland: a study using the ICPC-2 classification
    Hans Wolff
    Department of Community Medicine and Primary Care, Geneva University Hospitals and University of Geneva, Switzerland
    BMC Public Health 11:245. 2011
  4. ncbi Relevance and limits of the principle of "equivalence of care" in prison medicine
    Gérard Niveau
    IUML, Avenue de Champel 9, 1211 Geneve 4, Switzerland
    J Med Ethics 33:610-3. 2007
  5. ncbi [New challenges in forensic psychiatry]
    Gérard Niveau
    Unité de psychiatrie légale, Centre Universitaire Romand de Médecine Légale, Avenue de Champel 9, 1211 Geneve 4
    Rev Med Suisse 4:1600-4. 2008
  6. ncbi Route of administration of illicit drugs among remand prison entrants
    G Niveau
    Department of Community Health and Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland
    Eur Addict Res 14:92-8. 2008
  7. ncbi Psychiatric commitment: over 50 years of case law from the European Court of Human Rights
    G Niveau
    Department of Community Health and Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland
    Eur Psychiatry 22:59-67. 2007
  8. ncbi Prevention of infectious disease transmission in correctional settings: a review
    G Niveau
    Department of Community Health and Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, IUML, Avenue de Champel 9, 1211 Geneve 4, Switzerland
    Public Health 120:33-41. 2006
  9. ncbi Preventing human rights abuses in psychiatric establishments: the work of the CPT
    G Niveau
    Department of Community Health and Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, IUML CMU, Avenue de Champel 9, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
    Eur Psychiatry 19:146-54. 2004
  10. ncbi Methadone maintenance treatment, criminality and overdose-related deaths. An ecological study, 1983-1999
    Gérard Niveau
    Institut Universitaire de Medecine Legale, Av de Champel 9, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
    Eur J Public Health 12:224-7. 2002

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Publications14

  1. ncbi Criminal responsibility and cannabis use: psychiatric review and proposed guidelines
    Gérard Niveau
    Geneva University Institute of Forensic Medicine, Switzerland
    J Forensic Sci 47:451-8. 2002
    ..For each of these categories the effects of cannabis intoxication on cognitive and volitional capacities are analyzed, and guidelines for the evaluation of criminal responsibility are proposed...
  2. ncbi Psychiatric commitment: over 50 years of case law from the European Court of Human Rights
    G Niveau
    Department of Community Health and Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, IUML, Avenue de Champel 9, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
    Eur Psychiatry 21:427-35. 2006
    ..To extensively review the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) case law concerning psychiatric commitment, and to estimate the role of this supranational jurisprudence in the practice of contemporary psychiatry...
  3. ncbi Health problems among detainees in Switzerland: a study using the ICPC-2 classification
    Hans Wolff
    Department of Community Medicine and Primary Care, Geneva University Hospitals and University of Geneva, Switzerland
    BMC Public Health 11:245. 2011
    ..Little is known about the health status of prisoners in Switzerland. The aim of this study was to provide a detailed description of the health problems presented by detainees in Switzerland's largest remand prison...
  4. ncbi Relevance and limits of the principle of "equivalence of care" in prison medicine
    Gérard Niveau
    IUML, Avenue de Champel 9, 1211 Geneve 4, Switzerland
    J Med Ethics 33:610-3. 2007
    ..The principle of equivalence is cost-effective in general, but has to be overstepped to ensure the humane management of certain special cases...
  5. ncbi [New challenges in forensic psychiatry]
    Gérard Niveau
    Unité de psychiatrie légale, Centre Universitaire Romand de Médecine Légale, Avenue de Champel 9, 1211 Geneve 4
    Rev Med Suisse 4:1600-4. 2008
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  6. ncbi Route of administration of illicit drugs among remand prison entrants
    G Niveau
    Department of Community Health and Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland
    Eur Addict Res 14:92-8. 2008
    ..To describe the self-reported routes of administration of illicit drugs among subjects entering a remand prison and the different drugs used by this population...
  7. ncbi Psychiatric commitment: over 50 years of case law from the European Court of Human Rights
    G Niveau
    Department of Community Health and Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland
    Eur Psychiatry 22:59-67. 2007
    ..To extensively review the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) case law concerning psychiatric commitment, and to estimate the role of this supranational jurisprudence in the practice of contemporary psychiatry...
  8. ncbi Prevention of infectious disease transmission in correctional settings: a review
    G Niveau
    Department of Community Health and Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, IUML, Avenue de Champel 9, 1211 Geneve 4, Switzerland
    Public Health 120:33-41. 2006
    ..To review studies defining risk factors for infectious disease transmission in correctional settings, to determine target objectives, and to assemble recommendations for health promotion in prisons and jails...
  9. ncbi Preventing human rights abuses in psychiatric establishments: the work of the CPT
    G Niveau
    Department of Community Health and Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, IUML CMU, Avenue de Champel 9, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
    Eur Psychiatry 19:146-54. 2004
    ..These recommendations as well as the CPT's annual reports, serve as reference standards for psychiatric practice, which respect human rights...
  10. ncbi Methadone maintenance treatment, criminality and overdose-related deaths. An ecological study, 1983-1999
    Gérard Niveau
    Institut Universitaire de Medecine Legale, Av de Champel 9, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
    Eur J Public Health 12:224-7. 2002
    ..Methadone maintenance treatments (MMTs) are the commonest substitution treatments offered to opiate addiction in Switzerland, in order to reduce criminal behaviour, infectious disease transmission and overdose death...
  11. ncbi Psychiatric symptoms, psychological distress and somatic comorbidity among remand prisoners in Switzerland
    Ariel Eytan
    University Hospital of Geneva, Department of Psychiatry, 2 Ch Petit Bel Air 1225 Geneva, Switzerland
    Int J Law Psychiatry 34:13-9. 2011
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  12. ncbi Primary care services provided to adolescents in detention: a cross-sectional study using ICPC-2
    D M Haller
    Department of Community Medicine and Primary Care, Geneva University Hospitals and University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
    Acta Paediatr 99:1060-4. 2010
    ..The aim of this study was to provide a detailed description of the health problems for which primary care services are provided to adolescents in a juvenile detention facility in Europe...
  13. ncbi Mental health of young offenders in Switzerland: Recognizing psychiatric symptoms during detention
    Dimitri Gisin
    University of Geneva, Department of Psychology, 40, Boulevard du Pont d Arve, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
    J Forensic Leg Med 19:332-6. 2012
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  14. ncbi Criminal responsibility assessment in Switzerland: changes and continuity
    G Niveau
    Forensic Psychiatry Unit, , Avenue de Champel 9, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
    Eur Psychiatry 16:483-90. 2001
    ..However, the population that undergoes psychiatric assessments nowadays has changed considerably...