Opinions concerning the insanity plea and criminality among mental patients.
Opinions concerning the insanity plea and criminality among mental patients.
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关于精神病人的精神错乱辩护和犯罪的意见。
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1979
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通讯作者：
D. Seidenzahl
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R. Pasewark;D. Seidenzahl
虽然在精神病学和法律文献中可以找到许多与精神错乱抗辩有关的论述，但很少有经验性研究甚至涉及其发病率和成功率这一根本问题。同样，据作者所知，只有一项研究涉及个人对精神错乱抗辩的态度；该研究是对律师和精神病学家进行的调查。2在本研究中，受访者被要求(1)估计在怀俄明州立医院住院的18-非刑事民事男性患者的逮捕率，与相同年龄组普通男性人口的给定逮捕率进行比较；(2)估计怀俄明州精神错乱抗辩的频率和成功率；以及(3)表明他们对与精神错乱抗辩有关的某些程序事项的了解。匿名填写问卷的对象是209名怀俄明大学的学生。在这些学生中，169人参加了本科生心理学课程，40人参加了由怀俄明州卡斯珀分部提供的工商管理硕士课程。这是111名女性和98名男性。年龄分布17~43岁，平均22.3岁，中位数20.3岁。受教育程度12-16岁，平均13.5岁，中位数13.3岁。62名受试者(30%)报告说，他们或其直系亲属在过去的某个时候曾是犯罪行为的受害者。这些罪行从谋杀到破坏公物，不一而足。
Although numerous discourses relating to the insanity plea are to be found in the psychiatric and legal literature, there are but few empirical studies that address even the fundamental issue of its incidence and success rate.! Similarly, to the authors' knowledge, there is but one study concerned with the attitudes of individuals toward the insanity plea; that study was a survey made of lawyers and psychiatrists.2 In the present research, respondents were asked to (1) estimate the arrest rates of non-criminal civil male patients, aged 18-64, hospitalized at the Wyoming State Hospital as compared with given arrest rates by category for the general male population of the same age group; (2) estimate the frequency and success rate of the insanity plea in Wyoming; and (3) indicate their knowledge of certain procedural matters relating to the insanity plea. Subjects anonymously completing the questionnaire were 209 University of Wyoming students. Of these, 169 were enrolled in undergraduate psychology classes and 40 in a master's program in Business Administration offered through the Extension Division in Casper, Wyoming. These were 111 females and 98 males. Age distribution ranged from 17 to 43 years, with a mean of 22.3 and a median of 20.3. Educational level varied from 12 to 16 years, with a mean of 13.5 and a median of 13.3. Sixty-two subjects (30%) reported that they, or a member of their immediate family, had sometime in the past been victims of a criminal act. These offenses varied from murder to vandalism.