The Fate of Psychotic Offenders Returned for Trial

A. LOUIS MCGARRYAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 127, Number 9

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.9.1181

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In a long-term follow-up study in Massachusetts, the author found that most defendants who have been committed as incompetent to stand trial can probably be returned to the courts soon after their hospitalization; that it is in their best interest, unless their charges can be otherwise disposed of, to stand trial as quickly as possible; and that the risk to society posed by their release is no greater, and possibly less, than that of other groups of offenders.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 127 • Number 9 • March 1971

Pages: 1181 - 1184

PubMed: 5542335

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Published in print: March 1971

Published online: 1 April 2006

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A. LOUIS MCGARRY

Lecturer in Psychiatry, Laboratory of Community Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, 58 Fenwood Rd., Boston, Mass. 02115, and State Director of Legal Medicine, Massachusetts Department of Mental Health

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The Fate of Psychotic Offenders Returned for Trial

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