Fifth Amendment: Indefinite Commitment of Insanity Acquittees and Due Process Considerations

The unconditional release of mentally ill offenders from indefinite commitment: a study of Missouri insanity acquittees.

Using a database of all Missouri insanity acquittees committed on July 1, 1997 (N = 873) and all insanity acquittees unconditionally released from 1986 through 1997 (N = 193), this study calculated the lengths of commitment and identified variables associated with the unconditional release of insanity acquittees from indefinite commitment by the mental health and criminal justice systems. The s...

Disposition Acquittees of Insanity in Illinois

Little attention has been paid to the processing of insanity acquittees subsequent to criminal trial. This study first obtained descriptive data on new insanity acquittees (N = 137) in Illinois between January 1982 and July 1984 and then examined the criminal commitment criteria used by evaluating psychiatrists and criminal courts in the disposition of insanity acquittees. Acquittees in Illinoi...

Predicting criminal recidivism of insanity acquittees.

Commitment versus confinement: therapeutic passes in the management of insanity acquittees.

Despite documented changes in the not-guilty-byreason-of-insanity (NGRI) defense during the past 15 years, most states and the federal government continue to recognize the underlying principle that some mentally ill defendants must be viewed in a different light when assigning criminal responsibility. Although the NGRI defense is rarely invoked and is not usually successful, some individuals na...

Evaluation and treatment of insanity acquittees in the community.

This paper describes the monitored outpatient treatment program for Psychiatry Security Review Board (PSRB) clients in the largest single community treatment agency in the Oregon system. We describe 161 persons referred to this agency for evaluation and treatment. Ninety-one PSRB clients received treatment and of this group 51% had their conditional release revoked by the PSRB. The most frequen...