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Fu-Yin Huang1, Wei-Xiong Cai, Qin-Ting Zhang
1Institute of Forensic Science, Ministry of Justice, PR China, Shanghai 200063, China.
Objective:
To explore the feasibility of Diminished Criminal Responsibility Rating Scale(DCRRS) to schizophrenia offenders.
Methods:
The DCRRS were used respectively to 325 cases of schizophrenia offender which were divided into three groups according to the degree of criminal responsibility.
Results:
There were significant differences in rating score among three groups (mild group 21.16 +/- 4.17, moderate group 25.87 +/- 5.43, major group 29.35 +/- 4.60), and all items have good correlation with the total score of the scale. 6 factors were extracted by the factor analysis, and their cumulative squared loadings is 68.485%.
Conclusion:
The diminished criminal responsibility in schizophrenia offenders could be divided into three grades.
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