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The description and classification of presidential threateners
Author(s) -
Logan William S.,
Reuterfors David L.,
Bohn Martin J.,
Clark Charles L.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
behavioral sciences and the law
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.649
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1099-0798
pISSN - 0735-3936
DOI - 10.1002/bsl.2370020205
Subject(s) - presidential system , context (archaeology) , psychiatry , center (category theory) , medicine , psychology , political science , law , geography , chemistry , archaeology , politics , crystallography
Presidential threateners who received court‐ordered psychiatric evaluations at the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in 1981 and 1982 were studied. Using data from psychiatric reports and other background documents, the cases were analyzed according to demographic, legal, and psychiatric variables. Cases were also classified according to a system based on the characteristics of the threatener and the context in which the threat was made.