[The application of diminished criminal responsibility rating scale to mental retardation offenders].
OBJECTIVE
To explore the application of Diminished Criminal Responsibility Rating Scale (DCRRS) to mental retardation offenders.


METHODS
The DCRRS was used to 121 cases of mental retardation offenders who were divided into three groups according to the degree of their diminished criminal responsibility.


RESULTS
There were significant differences in rating score among the three groups (mild group 22.12+/-4.69, moderate group 25.50+/-5.48, major group 27.59+/-5.69), and 17 items had good correlation with the total score of the scale with the correlation coefficient from 0.289 to 0.665. Six factors were extracted by the factor analysis, and 69.392% variation could be explained.


CONCLUSIONS
The DCRRS has rational items, its total score could show the difference among the three degree diminished criminal responsibility of mental retardation offenders.
Guan
Wei
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Shanghai Key Laboratory of Forensic Medicine, Institute of Forensic Science, Ministry of Justice, Shanghai, China.
Cai
Wei-Xiong
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Huang
Fu-Yin
FY
Wu
Jia-Sheng
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D003415:Crime / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability; D016365:Liability, Legal; D008297:Male; D016743:Mental Competency / Q000523:psychology; D008875:Middle Aged; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D055815:Young Adult