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Mentally disordered offenders

A national survey of patients and facilities

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Bureau of Special Projects Research, New York State Department of Mental Hygiene, New York, USA

    Henry J. Steadman

  2. School of Law, University of Virginia, Virginia, USA

    John Monahan

  3. URSA Institute, San Francisco

    Eliot Hartstone

  4. Department of Sociology, College of LaVerne, LaVerne, USA

    Sharon Kantorowski Davis

  5. Bureau of Special Projects Research, New York State Department of Mental Hygiene, New York, USA

    Pamela Clark Robbins

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This research was partially supported by grant No. 79-N1-AX-0216 from the National Institute of Justice. We are grateful to Dr. Loren Roth for his comments on earlier draft of this work.

“Mentally disordered offender” is an umbrella term that consists of persons (1) found to be incompetent to stand trial; (2) found to be not guilty by reason of insanity; (3) found to be a mentally disordered sex offender; or (4) administratively transferred from a prison to a mental hospital. While this term has gained some acceptance in the literature, it is not an entirely accurate description. Neither incompetent defendans nor persons acquitted by reason of insanity have been convicted of a crime. Thus, neither group technically includes “offenders”.

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Steadman, H.J., Monahan, J., Hartstone, E. et al. Mentally disordered offenders. Law Hum Behav 6, 31–38 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01049311

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