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Hospitalization length of insanity acquittees
Author(s) -
Steadman Henry J.,
Pasewark Richard A.,
Hawkins Michael,
Kiser Michele,
Bieber Stephen
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(198307)39:4<611::aid-jclp2270390427>3.0.co;2-z
Subject(s) - insanity , psychology , imprisonment , homicide , marital status , insanity defense , variance (accounting) , regression analysis , psychiatry , clinical psychology , human factors and ergonomics , poison control , demography , medical emergency , statistics , medicine , criminology , sociology , population , accounting , mathematics , business
Used step‐wise multiple regression procedures to predict length of hospitalization of 225 defendants acquitted by reason of insanity in New York state. Of the 21 variables considered, only 9 (severity of offense, sex, marital status, days prior imprisonment, homicide offense, days previous civil hospitalization, educational level, race, number of victims) contributed to the significance of the regression equation. However, these accounted for but 11% of the observed variance.