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A look at court appointed psychiatric evaluations in Israel with special reference to criminal liability
R Durst1, K Jabotinsky-Rubin, Y Ginath
1Talbieh Mental Health Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
Medicine and Law
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
This article presents the data collected from 128 court appointed psychiatric evaluations (CAPEs) and their analysis. Issues addressed are: the link between type of criminal offence and mental disorder; rate of recidivism; efficacy of the early detection and follow-up systems; inherent psychiatric dilemmas; unacceptable lacuna in information recorded in the CAPEs; and the babel of legal and psychiatric terms. We advocate that a combined effort be made by the legal and psychiatric fraternities to create a uniform and standardized CAPE.