Schizophrenia is the most common in forensic psychiatry. The motive, the style and the consequence of any schizophrene's misdeed have its own particularity. So schizophrenia is significant in the forensic practice. The characteristics of schizophrene's misdeed and the peace breaker's responsibility, competence to stand trial and to serve a sentence werereviewed.
Crime/psychology* ; Expert Testimony/standards* ; Forensic Psychiatry/standards* ; Humans ; Liability, Legal ; Mental Competency/legislation & jurisprudence* ; Schizophrenia

When primary injuries caused by penetrating violence and secondary injuries by faulty medical procedures are both present, it is important to distinguish "avoidable" from "unavoidable" secondary injuries. The primary and "unavoidable" secondary injuries rather than the secondary "avoidable" injuries should be included as evidence for assessment of the degree and grade the injuries. The basic principles to assess blood accumulation after injury have been stated in the seventy-two clause of "The Assessment Criterion of Severe Human Body Injury". However, it dose not distinguish abdominal blood accumulation caused by primary penetrating wounds from that resulted from secondary medical procedures. An amendment to the clause might be necessary.
Abdominal Injuries/complications* ; Expert Testimony/standards* ; Female ; Forensic Medicine/standards* ; Hemoperitoneum/surgery* ; Humans ; Injury Severity Score ; Male ; Wounds, Penetrating/complications*

OBJECTIVE: To create an instrument to determine the mental disorder offenders' competency to stand trial, which is according with the Chinese legal system. METHODS: Integrating the foreign instruments and the Chinese criminal jurisprudence, and combing the authors' forensic psychiatric experience, the research team created an instrument which was called Competency to stand trial Determining Instrument firstly, then used the instrument in practice, in the end the validity and reliability of the instrument were inspected, and through an diagnostic test, the feasibility of the instrument was evaluated. RESULTS: Split-half and homogeneity reliability of the instrument is 0.9366 and 0.9213 respectively, the correspondence of the conclusion between the instrument and the expertise is 0.704. Except the sensitivity is 0.6097, all the other diagnostic index are over 0.80. CONCLUSION The Competency to stand trial Determining Instrument is feasible.
Expert Testimony ; Forensic Psychiatry/methods* ; Humans ; Mental Competency/standards* ; Mental Disorders/psychology* ; Psychiatric Status Rating Scales ; Reproducibility of Results ; Surveys and Questionnaires

Physical and mental injury exist as relative aspect of human injury. They have different medicine and legal feature, as well as mutual dependence and conversion. Physical and mental injury not only present respective character in the classification, but also have difference in specific basis of rating.
Depression/psychology* ; Expert Testimony/standards* ; Forensic Psychiatry ; Humans ; Mental Disorders/psychology* ; Severity of Illness Index ; Wounds and Injuries/psychology*

Testamentary capacity is one of the civil competences, it means that a natural person enjoys the capacity or qualification to establish testament and deal with his property. Recently, the cases of testamentary capacity assessment of the mentally disordered are increasing. This article firstly introduces the concepts of the testament as well as the testamentary capacity, and then summarizes the assessment standard of the testamentary capacity, by using the Banks v. Goodfellow case as a basis to make the standard criteria including: the understanding of the nature of a will and codicil, the knowledge of the general extent of one's assets, the knowledge of the natural object of one's bounty, the understanding of the impact of the distribution of the assets of the estate, and the absence of a delusion specifically affecting the distribution of the estate. The impact factors of the testamentary capacity, including dementia, mood disorder, schizophrenia, alcohol, drug, and undue influence, etc., are summarized. Lastly, the related assessment tools such as the Mini-Mental State Examination, the Clock-Drawing Test, and the Testament Definition Scale are introduced briefly.
Alcoholism/psychology* ; Dementia/psychology* ; Expert Testimony/standards* ; Forensic Psychiatry ; Humans ; Mental Competency/standards* ; Mental Disorders/psychology* ; Mental Status Schedule ; Wills/legislation & jurisprudence*

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.
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

In recent years, mental disability estimation are more than ever in the practice of forensic psychiatric expertise. The standards about mental disability estimation in the Disability Evaluation Criteria of Traffic Accident Injury are ambiguous and difficult to operate, it cause to different understanding in one case. This article discuss some common questions through 3 aspects in mental disability expertise according to some typical cases, there are the first, we should compare the IQ score before and after injurious in intelligence estimate. The second, the mental disability estimation should be done at least one year after the end of medicine treatment. The third, mental estimate scale should be used in mental disability estimation.
Accidents, Traffic ; Adolescent ; Craniocerebral Trauma/psychology* ; Disability Evaluation ; Expert Testimony/standards* ; Female ; Forensic Psychiatry/legislation & jurisprudence* ; Humans ; Intelligence ; Male ; Persons with Mental Disabilities ; Wechsler Scales ; Young Adult

We discovered that the surface area and the length of body wounds or scar can not be calculated each other in the existing standards. It may be unfair to some assessments of body surface impairment. It is necessary to raise a means to solve this problem and provide the reference for the colleague.
Adult ; Cicatrix/pathology* ; Expert Testimony/standards* ; Female ; Forensic Pathology/methods* ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Skin/pathology* ; Trauma Severity Indices ; Wound Healing ; Wounds and Injuries/pathology*

Positional asphyxia of restraint means that when an individual was limited in an abnormal body position, asphyxia would take place owing to the disorder of spontaneous respiratory function, and finally it lead to die. So, it belongs to a special type of the mechanical asphyxia. From the cases reported, we could found that it would take place in several conditions. Because the cases were not caused enough recognition, the study has been researched carefully only in recent years. Following the more cases reported, many experts of forensic medicine had investigated it on the mechanism of death and the standard of identification, but they could not reach to agreements. So, they have changed the directions of the researches, began to value the factors of risk and research how to avoid it. In the following text, the mechanism of death, factors of risk, preventive methods, standard of identification and prospecting of positional asphyxia of restraint were reviewed.
Alcoholic Intoxication/physiopathology* ; Animals ; Asphyxia/prevention & control* ; Cause of Death ; Diaphragm/physiopathology* ; Expert Testimony/standards* ; Forensic Medicine ; Humans ; Muscle Fatigue ; Posture/physiology* ; Respiratory Mechanics ; Restraint, Physical/adverse effects*

Through consensus, establish a post-marketing scheme and the technical processes to evaluate Chinese medicine's immunotoxicity on a population, as well as its beneficial influences on the immune system. Provide regulations on the collection, storage and transportation of serum samples. This article applies to the post-marketing scientific evaluation of the immunotoxicity of parenterally administered, and for other ways of taking Chinese medicine.
Consensus ; Drug Hypersensitivity ; etiology ; immunology ; Drug Monitoring ; adverse effects ; methods ; standards ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; adverse effects ; Expert Testimony ; Humans ; Immunologic Techniques ; methods ; standards ; Product Surveillance, Postmarketing ; methods ; standards ; Th1 Cells ; immunology ; Th2 Cells ; immunology