Psychiatric court reports

Characteristics of mentally ill offenders from 100 psychiatric court reports

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 repo...

The psychiatric evaluation of dangerousness in two trial court jurisdictions.

Psychiatric disorders among detained youths: a comparison of youths processed in juvenile court and adult criminal court.

OBJECTIVE All 50 states and the District of Columbia have legal mechanisms to try juveniles as adults in criminal court. This study examined the prevalence of psychiatric disorders among youths transferred to adult criminal court and youths processed in the juvenile court. METHODS Participants were a stratified random sample of 1,829 youths, ten to 18 years of age, who were arrested and detai...

Neurosyphilis in Psychiatric Settings: Three Case Reports 2

Syphilis is a generally sexually transmitted and multisystem disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pallidum. All of the organs of the body may be involved during the course of the disease. Neurosyphilis is a clinical form of syphilis with central nervous system (CNS) involvement. While primarily meningeal and vascular structures are involved in early neurosyphilis, parenchymal regions of t...

President's message: reasoning behind conclusions in psychiatric reports and testimony.