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Comparing patients treated in special security civil state hospital units with patients in forensic programs
Author(s) -
Way Bruce B.
Publication year - 1985
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.2370030208
Subject(s) - forensic science , medicine , state hospital , medical emergency , poison control , suicide prevention , human factors and ergonomics , injury prevention , psychiatry , computer security , computer science , veterinary medicine
Psychiatric inpatients in special units designed for the treatment/management of violence (secure care) are compared with inpatients in three forensic programs. Although program designers anticipated that secure care and forensic patients would be similar, they were not. Principally, secure care patients were lower functioning in the psychiatric areas and were more likely to have engaged in a physical assault in the last 30 days.