標題: Forensic Evaluations for Offenders With Dementia in Taiwan's Criminal Courts
作者: Wang, Hui-Yi
Chen, Jiun-Hsiung
Huang, San-Yuan
Yeh, Hui-Wen
Mao, Wei-Chung
Chang, Hsin-An
Kao, Yu-Chen
Yeh, Chin-Bin
Chou, Yu-Ching
Chiang, Wei-Shan
Tzeng, Nian-Sheng
生物資訊及系統生物研究所
Institude of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
公開日期: 1-Mar-2018
摘要: Dementia is an increasing world-wide health problem, and the association between dementia and adjudication of crimes has rarely been studied. The data in this study are described and analyzed by gender, psychiatric diagnosis, type of crime, and the acceptance rate by the courts of opinions tendered by forensic psychiatric examiners. The source data are derived from the databank of the Judicial Yuan (Judicial Department) of the Republic of China Law and Regulations Retrieval System. There was a male predominance of 85.1 percent. Larceny (42.6%) was the most frequent crime. There was also a high judicial acceptance rate of 91.5 percent of the professional opinions received from forensic psychiatric evaluators who examined defendants at the request of the courts. Psychiatrists play an important role in providing their professional opinions for the Taiwanese courts with regard to adjudication of evaluees with dementia. Most courts accepted psychiatrists' professional opinions about offenders with dementia, and the rate of acceptance was reflected in the judicial rulings of criminal responsibility.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11536/144792
ISSN: 1093-6793
期刊: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PSYCHIATRY AND THE LAW
Volume: 46
起始頁: 45
結束頁: 51
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