Unfitness To Plead Among Female Offenders: When Looseness Matters
ASEAN Journal of Psychiatry
;
: 14-2018.
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Dans Anglais
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ABSTRACT
@#Objective:
Pritchard Criteria are adopted in a Malaysian criminal-justice system while assessing fitness to plead. There is limited data on the reason of unfitness to plead for female offenders in Malaysia.Methods:
A case series of five patients hospitalized to Hospital Bahagia Ulu Kinta, Malaysia due to unfitness to plead was presented and discussed.Result:
The offences include three homicides, one assault, and one stealing. All of them were diagnosed to have schizophrenia with prominent looseness of association. Four of them subsequently treated as Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia (TRS) with a minimal response toward clozapine.Conclusion:
Looseness of association may be a contributing factor for unfitness to plead among Malaysian female offenders, which can result in indeterminate hospitalization. This should be confirmed in a larger prospective study.
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WPRIM (Pacifique occidental)
Type d'étude:
Étude observationnelle
langue:
Anglais
Texte intégral:
ASEAN Journal of Psychiatry
Année:
2018
Type:
Article
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