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Extraction of Potential Difficult‐to‐Manage Psychiatric Cases among Criminal Offenders: 5‐Year Data from the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office
Author(s) -
Inada Toshiya,
Minagawa Fumiko,
Iwashita Satoru,
Tokui Tatsuji
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1994.tb03074.x
Subject(s) - arson , psychiatry , criminal justice , homicide , criminal record , psychology , governor , suicide prevention , forensic psychiatry , poison control , criminology , medicine , medical emergency , engineering , aerospace engineering
In order to examine the characteristics of potential difficult‐to‐manage psychiatric cases, seven potential subgroups were extracted from the criminal offenders who were sent to the division of psychiatric diagnosis, Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office for Pre‐Prosecution Psychiatric Justice (PPPJ). The following criteria were used to select the potential subgroups: offenders who had experienced compulsory discharge from a mental hospital, those who had experienced Involuntary Admission to the mental hospital by the Prefectural Governor at least twice, those who had experienced admission to mental hospitals on more than 5 occasions, those who had been put on PPPJ previously for other criminal matters at least 3 times, those who had previously attempted suicide, and those who had committed homicide or arson. From the results of this study, it could be concluded that at least two types of “difficult‐to‐manage” psychiatric cases exist in the criminal offenders.