A two-year review of court examinations.
This paper reports on a review of 518 Psychiatric Court Examination conducted at the Ottawa Court House in 1972-1973. Characteristics of the sample are described,  and an attempt is made to relate the effects of some of these characteristics to decisions resulting from the psychiatric examination. It was concluded that those examinations help to identify obviously mentally distubed persons, advise the Court about the mental condition of people first appearing in Court, and do not unduly alter the legal process.
D000367:Age Factors; D003417:Criminal Psychology; D005260:Female; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011599:Psychopathology; D012737:Sex Factors