A review of offenders in a state psychiatric hospital

• Main Authors: LIM, L. E. C., TAN, L. L., SUNG, M., CHAN, K. L., LOH, M. I., STRAUGHAN, Paulin T.
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2000
• 主題: court order; remand; criminal; offences; victims; reconviction; Psychiatry and Psychology
• 在線閱讀: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2185; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3442/viewcontent/A_review_of_offenders_in_a_state_psychiatric_hospital.pdf
• 機構: Singapore Management University

Patients remanded over a two-year period to Woodbridge Hospital by Court Order were studied retrospectively. Schizophrenia was the most common diagnosis, theft and robbery the most prevalent offences. Males greatly outnumbered females. There were important gender differences, with males tending to c...