Abstract
Abstract A study was made of offenders referred for forensic assessment on an outpatient basis in terms of criminal non-responsibility, diminished responsibility, or complete responsibility: the characteristics of each group were examined. The subjects were 121 Japanese mentally ill offenders referred for forensic evaluation at the Department of Mental Health, University of Tsukuba, between 1972 and 1992. From their psychiatric reports, demographic, psychiatric, criminal and other data were analysed. Significant differences were found between the responsibility groups in terms of demographic variables (marital status, residence, persons living together), psychiatric variables (delusions, hallucinations, hopelessness and purposefulness, psychiatric history, warning signs of the offence, inappropriate behaviour, diagnosis) and criminological variables (alleged crime, prior arrest record and relationship with victim). This study illustrates the characteristics of the non-responsible, diminished responsibility and completely responsible groups.
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