Professor Seena Fazel
Professor of Forensic Psychiatry & Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Clinical Science, Department of Psychiatry
About
Professor Fazel’s research focuses on the relationship between mental illness and violent crime, the mental health of prisoners, and violence risk assessment.
He was the expert forensic psychiatrist appointed by the UN-sponsored Khmer Rouge Tribunal to assess the fitness to plead and stand trial of the defendants in Case 002.
His clinical work includes sessions for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust as a visiting psychiatrist at a local prison.
Expertise
- Prison mental health
- Prison suicide
- Violence in people with mental illness
- Secure psychiatric hospitals
- Fitness to plead and stand trial
Selected publications
- Depression and Violence in Adolescence and Young Adults: Findings From Three Longitudinal Cohorts (2017)
- Association Between Prescription of Major Psychotropic Medications and Violent Reoffending After Prison Release (2016)
- Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors and Violent Crime: A Cohort Study (2015)
- Improving risk assessment in schizophrenia: epidemiological investigation of criminal history factors (2015)
Media experience
Professor Fazel has extensive experience in radio and print media, both national and international, and some experience in television. He has also participated in a number of Science Media Centre press briefings on his research.
Recent media work
- Is depression linked to violence? Teenage mental health sufferers are twice as likely to have a criminal record...
- Terrorists' moral judgment probed in psychology test
- Giving ex-prisoners drugs may help stop them re-offending: Mental health medication could cut relapse rates
- Antidepressants make people TWICE as likely to become suicidal as experts say drug companies under-report their side effects
- A single concussion may have lasting impact