[Study of affecting factors of mentally prisoner's competency to serve a sentence].
OBJECTIVE
Explore the affecting factors of mentally prisoner's competency to serve a sentence (CSS), establish the base of quantitative study of CSS.


METHODS
Firstly, the researchers compile a questionnaire named legal-psycho ability of competency to serve a sentence questionnaire, then the researchers scaling the object with RTHD, and ask all object complete the questionnaire. there a hypothesis, that the object who are cured in cured ward is incompetent to serve a sentence (ISS), and the other who are stay in rehabilitated ward is competent to serve a sentence (CSS).


RESULTS
There are 185 object admitted the study, the ISS group the CSS group have significance between psychiatric and legal aspects.


CONCLUSIONS
At the influence of psychiatric symptoms, the mentally prisoner's competency to serve a sentence had been impaired, and they should been transferred from prison to hospital.
Huang
Fu-yin
FY
Institute of Forensic Science, Ministry of Justice, PR China, Shanghai 200063, China.
Lu
Cheng-rong
CR
Zhang
Qin-ting
QT
Cai
Weixiong
W
Guan
Wei
W
Wu
Jiasheng
J
Wang
Jianjun
J
D000328:Adult; D005104:Expert Testimony / Q000592:standards; D005260:Female; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016743:Mental Competency; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D028642:Persons with Psychiatric Disorders / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000523:psychology; D008875:Middle Aged; D011329:Prisoners / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires