Competency to stand trial evaluations in a multicultural population: Associations between psychiatric, demographic, and legal factors
| Autor: | Tamar Lavy, Alan Perry, Elizabeth Owen, Michael Fullar, Benjamin Lane, Cheryl Paradis, Sasha Rai, Chinmoy Gulrajani, Gene McCullough, Linda Zener Solomon |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Urban Population Immigration Poison control 050109 social psychology Suicide prevention Occupational safety and health Medicine Mental Competency Intersectoral Collaboration media_common Observer Variation education.field_of_study Mental Disorders 05 social sciences Human factors and ergonomics Cultural Diversity Middle Aged Substance abuse Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Psychiatry and Mental health Female Adult medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Population Emigrants and Immigrants Pathology and Forensic Medicine Young Adult Intellectual Disability Injury prevention Interview Psychological Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences education Psychiatry 0505 law Aged Demography Patient Care Team business.industry Translating medicine.disease United States Psychotic Disorders 050501 criminology Interdisciplinary Communication business human activities Law |
| Zdroj: | International journal of law and psychiatry. 47 |
| ISSN: | 1873-6386 |
| Popis: | Data were examined from an archival sample of Competency to Stand Trial (CST) reports of 200 consecutive New York City pre-trial defendants evaluated over a five-month period. Approximately a fourth of defendants in the present study were immigrants; many required the assistance of interpreters. The examiners conducting the CST evaluation diagnosed approximately half of the defendants with a primary diagnosis of a psychotic disorder and deemed over half not competent. Examiners reached the same conclusion about competency in 96% of cases, about the presence of a psychotic disorder in 91% of cases, and affective disorder in 85% of cases. No significant differences between psychologists and psychiatrists were found for rates of competency/incompetency opinions. Compared to those deemed competent, defendants deemed not competent had significantly higher rates of prior psychiatric hospitalization and diagnosis of psychotic illness at the time of the CST evaluation but lower rates of reported substance abuse. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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