A follow-up of patients found "unfit to stand trial" or "not guilty" because of insanity.
Fifty-six patients who were found unfit to stand trial or not guilty by reason of insanity were followed up after their release from a maximum security psychiatric institution. At the time of follow-up 50 percent lived in the community, 43 percent were in psychiatric facilities and 5 percent were in correctional facilities -- 9 percent of the patients were either returned to the maximum security hospital or had committed new offences. The twenty-seven ex-patients who were interviewed generally exhibited little psychiatric symptomatology and there was evidence that they had adjusted well to the psychiatric facility or community in which they lived. As a group they appeared to have made a better vocational than social adjustment.
D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D003417:Criminal Psychology; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D008297:Male; D012917:Social Adjustment