Diagnosis of "unspecified psychotic disorder" in identifying criminal responsibility / 法医学杂志

OBJECTIVE@#To explore diagnosis and management of "unspecified psychotic disorder" in determination of criminal responsibility.@*METHODS@#Analysis of 12 cases of "unspecified psychotic disorder" during determination of criminal responsibility in Sichuan Forensic Expertise Center in Southwest China from January 2006 to July 2007.@*RESULTS@#The main reason to diagnose unspecified psychotic disorder was there were insufficient information and findings . Descriptions of mental abnormalities were not complete and were atypical (83.3%). Even if "unspecified psychotic disorder" was diagnosed, it was still possible to determine criminal responsibility by its motivation and intention to escape. 75% suspects were determined to bear limited criminal responsibility and 25% were not criminally responsible.@*CONCLUSION@#The unspecified psychotic disorder is a provisional diagnosis. It should be used cautiously in the course of jurisdictional identification of mental diseases.

Analysis of intelligence in criminals with no psychosis diagnosed with forensic psychiatry / 法医学杂志

OBJECTIVE@#To study the intelligence of criminals with no psychosis diagnosed with forensic psychiatry.@*METHODS@#The intelligence test results in 88 criminal cases with no psychosis and in 89 criminal cases with schizophrenia were compared.@*RESULTS@#There were no significant statistical differences between two groups with respect to their sex, age, education, occupation, marital status, and criminal type. The average intelligence quotient (IQ) of no psychosis group was significantly higher than that of the schizophrenic group, but was significantly lower than the normal. There was no significant statistical difference between the subgroups claiming as either suffering or denying psychosis.@*CONCLUSION@#There is a mild impairment in the intelligence in no psychosis group.

Following up investigation of forensic psychiatry judicial expert mental testimony / 法医学杂志

OBJECTIVE@#To study different viewpoints to the conclusion and treatment, And the following up factors concerning social effect after the judgment of forensic psychiatry.@*METHODS@#By letters, calls, visits and by investigation forms made by myself, 208 testimonied cases were followed up separately from judicial organ or other organizations and institutes, individuals testimonied or their family members, victims and their family members.@*RESULTS@#Most testimonied individuals were married man of 30 years old or so whose average education were 4.84 years and testimonied by the public security organs. In criminal cases, violental criminals (129 cases, 83.77%) were much more than non-violental criminals (25 cases, 16.23%) and homicide criminals (44 cases, 28.57%) were most common in the former but civil cases were few. The rate of retstinvony was 2.93%. The testimonied individuals and their family members thought the condemn were appropriate (76.47%) for the people without criminal capacity and thought the condemn were appropriate (41.94%) or not appropriate (41.94%) for the people with criminal capacity. The opinions of the condemn for partial criminal capacity were between the former two cases. And they thought the condemn for 28 cases of non-guilty were appropriate (71.43%) and not appropriate (10.7%). 7 victims were dead. 10 victims were crippled. 10 victims restored to health. In 41 persons testimonied and set free with a verdict of "not guilty", 4 homicided again (4.87%), 2 set on fire (4.87%), 2 stealed (4.87%) and 3 had wrecked behavior (7.31%).@*CONCLUSION@#So it is suggested that the department concerned should keep criminals with mental disorder under control and treatment.

The creation of an instrument to determine competency to stand trial / 法医学杂志

OBJECTIVE@#To create an instrument to determine the mental disorder offenders' competency to stand trial, which is according with the Chinese legal system.@*METHODS@#Integrating the foreign instruments and the Chinese criminal jurisprudence, and combing the authors' forensic psychiatric experience, the research team created an instrument which was called Competency to stand trial Determining Instrument firstly, then used the instrument in practice, in the end the validity and reliability of the instrument were inspected, and through an diagnostic test, the feasibility of the instrument was evaluated.@*RESULTS@#Split-half and homogeneity reliability of the instrument is 0.9366 and 0.9213 respectively, the correspondence of the conclusion between the instrument and the expertise is 0.704. Except the sensitivity is 0.6097, all the other diagnostic index are over 0.80.@*CONCLUSION@#The Competency to stand trial Determining Instrument is feasible.