Il lavoro sociale nelle Rems : uno studio empirico sulla presa in carico del folle reo.

The article deals with problems of transition from Judicial Psychiatric Hospitals to Residences for the Implementation of Security Measures, which for a few years is happening in Italy. It proposes a qualitative research carried out on social workers about the strengths and weaknesses that have Rems for psychiatric offenders, both at a macro structural level to a micro context one. The results attest inter alia the need to work to implement integrated projects, targeted to the patient's social reintegration. They represent a framework largely in the making, that - in spite of the changing and substantial difficulties - expresses a need for the social operators to work in an integrated way aimed at developing a real patient empowerment. [Publishers' text].