title: Persons discharged from warrants of the Lieutenant Governor.
abstract: The authors compiled demographic, psychiatric, and criminological information on persons who were held on warrants of the Lieutenant Governor in Ontario. These warrants were vacated between the period 1969-1982. Of the entire population of 296 such persons, 46% were held as being Unfit to Stand Trial, 51% were Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity, and the remainder were Mentally Ill prisoners. Separate analyses were conducted with the Unfit sample. The average length of confinement on a warrant was 7 years.
mesh_terms: D003134:Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D003617:Dangerous Behavior; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry; D006801:Humans; D007298:Insanity Defense; D007902:Length of Stay / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation; D009864:Ontario; D010344:Patient Advocacy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D010351:Patient Discharge / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*