The University of Insubria

		Jutta Maria Birkhoff

	Contact data	Associate Professor of Forensic Medicine Department of Medicine and Public Health Padiglione Antonini, Via O. Rossi 9, 21100 VARESE (Italy) Tel: 0332-217510 Fax: 0332-217509 E-mail: jutta.birkhoff@uninsubria.it
	Biography	Jutta M. Birkhoff attended medical University Courses in Pavia where she graduated in 1991 (thesis on Child abuse). She worked as an MD at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Varese. She earned a Ph.D. in Criminology and Forensic Psychiatry at the University of Turin and then a specialization in Forensic Medicine at the University of Insubria. J. Birkhoff is a member of the Lombard association of Forensic Medicine, of the Italian association of Community Therapy, of the Italian society of Criminology. She is also member of the editorial comity of the review "Archivio di Medicina legale e delle Assicurazioni" and member of the scientific commission of "Rassegna italiana di Criminologia", official organ of Italian Society of Criminology. Since 1998 she is an Associate Professor of Forensic Medicine at the University of Insubria
	Qualifications and awards	Medical doctor, Doctor in Criminology and Forensic Psychiatry. Specialist in Forensic Medicine, Associate Professor of Forensic Medicine
	Research interests	Her main scientific interests are related to criminology and forensic psychiatry (child abuse and neglect, victimisation of elderly, homicide in family, relationship between mental problems and delinquency, narratology in psychiatric expertise, serial killer, witness of sexual abused children).
	Teaching experience and appointments	J. Birkhoff teaches Forensic Medicine in Courses for medical students, physicians, nurses and other health professionals, both in undergraduate and graduate level. She is a member of the Scientific and Teaching Committee and Professor in the Masters in Forensic Criminology, University of Insubria and Castellanza.
	Representative publications	(all IT): Books -(with U. Fornari), Serial Killer, Centro Scientifico Editore, Torino, 1996 (ed., with Francia A. Verde A.) To narrate crime, Franco Angeli, Milano, 1999 -(ed., with Francia A., Armocida G.) From body of the victim to the body of convict, ERGA, Genova, 2001 Articles (all IT) -(with Francia A. Gaddi D.) Multiple personality disorder and mental capacity, Arch. Med. Leg. Ass., 14, 1992, pp. 390-403 -(with Francia A., Gaddi D.) The violence in stadium during football games in years 1950-1960, Med. Leg.- Quad. Cam., XVI, n.1, 1994, pp.241-258 -(with Francia A.) Psychosomatic damage in children after head trauma. Case report. Arch. Med. Leg. Ass., 17, fasc.n.2, 1995, pp.289-299 -(with Francia A.) Forensic psychopathology and the problem of children victims of road accidents, Arch. Med. Leg. Ass., 17, fasc.n.2, 1995, pp.301-309 -To inform the psychiatric patient about his mental problem and about therapy: a must or a faculty?, in (ed.) Jourdan S., Fornari U., La responsabilità del medico in psichiatria, Centro Scientifico Editore, Troino, 1997, pp. 29-45 -The consent and the ability to understand of patient, in (ed.) Jourdan S., Fornari U., La responsabilità del medico in psichiatria, Centro Scientifico Editore, Troino, 1997, pp. 29-45 -(with Francia A., Tavani M.). The Saturday night drugs, Rass. It. Criminol., n.2, 1999, pp.257-277 -(with Francia A. Gaddi D.) The unconscious between cause and guilt. Criminological annotations concerning the tell of F. Durrenmatt 'la panne', in, (ed.) Francia A. Verde A., Birkhoff J., "Raccontare delitti. Il ruolo della narrativa nella formazione del pensiero criminologico, Franco Angeli, Milano, 1999, pp.205-221 -(with Demori A., Rocali D.) Pathology of care. A type of violence against children, Tema, anno II, n.2-3, 1999, pp.29-32 -(with Demori A., Rocali D.) Ageing and 'new' types of abuse, Riv. Psicol. Giuridica, anno III, n.1, 1999, pp.91-104 -The juvenile prostitution, in (ed.) Bandini T., Gualco B., "Infanzia e abuso sessuale", Giuffrè, Milano, 2000, pp.73-105 -(with Francia A.) A historical and criminological lecture of trials concerning witchcraft, Riv. Storia della Medicina, n.1-2, 1999, pp.109-140 -(with Tavani M., Selvagio F. Picozzi M.), Compensation of macro-damage from head-brain trauma, The forensic medicine point of view, Collana Medico-giuridica, n,10, Centro Gennaro Giannini, 2000 -(with Callegari C., Milani S., Pace V., Gualandi E., Baranzini I., Oliva S., D'Anneo R:, Vender S.) Prejudice and tolerance: a study in two town areas of Varese, Studi di psichiatria, vol.3, 2001, pp.108-113 -(with Picozzi M., Zeroli S.) Homicide in family in the area of Varese, in, (ed) Lorettu L. Milia P., "Psichiatria forense, farmacoterapia e psicoterapia: un approccio integrato", -(with Funaro F., Motta M., Tavani M.) Trauma of vertebral artery: case report, Rivista degli infortuni e delle malattie professionali, fasc.2., 2004, pp.249-253 -(with Armocida G.) Forensic medicine, psychiatry and 'follia morale' at the beginning of a lasting discussion, in (ed.) Armocida G., Bellotti G., Contributi di storia della psichiatria, Insubria University Press, Varese, 2005, pp.107-117 -(with Alberici E.), Incest: 'a history of love and shame', Rass. It. Criminol., vol. 1, 2005, pp. 11-28 -Another scene of treatment: the therapeutic community in therapy of subjects with personality disorder, http://www.psychomedia.it
	Clinical interests	Community therapy, voluntary and forced treatment of patient with mental problems

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