Study of affecting factors of mentally prisoner's competency to serve a sentence.
- Author:
Fu-yin HUANG
1
;
Cheng-rong LU
;
Qin-ting ZHANG
;
Weixiong CAI
;
Wei GUAN
;
Jiasheng WU
;
Jianjun WANG
Author Information
1. Institute of Forensic Science, Ministry of Justice, PR China, Shanghai 200063, China.
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
Adult;
Expert Testimony/standards*;
Female;
Forensic Psychiatry;
Humans;
Male;
Mental Competency;
Mental Disorders/psychology*;
Mentally Ill Persons/psychology*;
Middle Aged;
Prisoners/psychology*;
Surveys and Questionnaires
- From:
Journal of Forensic Medicine
2004;20(4):218-220
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
OBJECTIVE:Explore the affecting factors of mentally prisoner's competency to serve a sentence (CSS), establish the base of quantitative study of CSS.
METHODS:Firstly, the researchers compile a questionnaire named legal-psycho ability of competency to serve a sentence questionnaire, then the researchers scaling the object with RTHD, and ask all object complete the questionnaire. there a hypothesis, that the object who are cured in cured ward is incompetent to serve a sentence (ISS), and the other who are stay in rehabilitated ward is competent to serve a sentence (CSS).
RESULTS:There are 185 object admitted the study, the ISS group the CSS group have significance between psychiatric and legal aspects.
CONCLUSION:At the influence of psychiatric symptoms, the mentally prisoner's competency to serve a sentence had been impaired, and they should been transferred from prison to hospital.
