Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Characteristics of mentally ill offenders from 100 psychiatric court reports. | Elsayed et al. Annals of General Psychiatry 2010 9 4 http content 9 1 4 ANNALS OF GENERAL PSYCHIATRY PRIMARY RESEARCH Open Access Characteristics of mentally ill offenders from 100 psychiatric court reports Yasser A Elsayed1 2 Mohamed Al-Zahrani2 Mahmoud M Rashad2 3 Abstract Background There is an increasing probability that the psychiatrist will willingly or not come into contact with mentally ill offenders in the course of their practice. There are increasing rates of violence substance abuse and other psychiatric disorders that are of legal importance. Therefore the aim of this work was to investigate the rates of different mental disorders in 100 court reports and to investigate the characteristics of mentally ill offenders. Methods All cases referred from different departments of the legal system to the forensic committee for assessment of legal accountability over 13-months duration were included. A specially designed form was prepared for data collection. Cases were classified into five groups murder robbery financial offences violent and simple offences and a group for other offences. Data were subjected to statistical analysis and comparisons between different groups of subjects were performed by analysis of variance ANOVA . Results Men constituted 93 of cases. In all 73 of offenders were younger than 40 years old. Schizophrenia cases made up 13 of the total substance related cases constituted 56 and amphetamine cases alone made up 21 10 of cases were antisocial personality disorders and 51 of cases were classified as having a low education level. Unemployment was found in 34 of cases. The final decision of the forensic committee was full responsibility in 46 of cases and partial responsibility in 11 of cases with 33 considered non-responsible. A total of 58 of cases had had contact with psychiatric healthcare prior to the offence and in 9 of cases contact had been in the previous 12 weeks. A history of similar offences .
