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Special study on mentally disordered accused and the criminal justice system
Abstract
The policy and processes involving mentally disordered accused can be complex.
Persons found unfit to stand trial, or not criminally responsible for their
actions on account of a mental disorder, come into contact with both the health
and justice systems. With the increasing availability over the past two to three
decades of psychotropic medication for mentally disordered persons, the health
system is now able to treat this group in a non-institutionalized setting. Similarly,
dispositions made by the court, when the accused has been found either unfit
to stand trial or else not criminally responsible for their actions, have shifted
from indeterminate incarceration to minimal detention and community-based treatment.
This document reviews the processes undertaken by persons identified as mentally
disordered in court and identifies potential data-collection opportunities.
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