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After Oregon's insanity defense:. A comparison of conditional release and hospitalization

  • Joseph D. Bloom
  • , Jeffrey L. Rogers
  • , Spero M. Manson

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Abstract

This paper is one in a series of reports on the characteristics of persons committed to the Oregon Psychiatric Security Review Board (PSRB) and their treatment and disposition while subject to its jurisdiction. For the purpose of this discussion, we have focused on conditional release and attempt to answer a number of questions. How do the individuals who are placed in the community differ from those who remain hospitalized? Do the two mechanisms of conditional release in this system, by judges or the PSRB, differ in terms of the kinds of people that they are likely to release? Lastly, what features distinguish those individuals who manage to succeed in their release plans from those who do not?

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)391-402
Number of pages12
JournalInternational Journal of Law and Psychiatry
Volume5
Issue number3-4
DOIs
StatePublished - 1982

Funding

*Professor, **Adjunct Assistant Professor, t**Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Oregon Health Sciences University, School of Medicine, 3181 SW. Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, Oregon, 97201. This work is supported in part by NIMH grant MH 13462-08. The authors wish to thank the staff of the Psychiatric Security Review Board for their help in gathering material for this project, and Linda Grounds, M.S., and Ms. Susan Hines for their work in data analysis.

FundersFunder number
National Institutes of Health National Institute of Mental HealthMH 13462-08

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Pathology and Forensic Medicine
    • Psychiatry and Mental health
    • Law

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