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[Study of affecting factors of mentally prisoner's competency to serve a sentence]
Fu-yin Huang1, Cheng-rong Lu, Qin-ting Zhang
1Institute of Forensic Science, Ministry of Justice, PR China, Shanghai 200063, China.
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.
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