title: [Study of affecting factors of mentally prisoner's competency to serve a sentence].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Forensic Science, Ministry of Justice, PR China, Shanghai 200063, China.
authors.forename: Fu-yin
authors.initials: FY
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Cheng-rong
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Qin-ting
authors.initials: QT
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Weixiong
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Cai
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Guan
authors.forename: Jiasheng
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Jianjun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: 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