The Fate of Psychotic Offenders Returned for Trial
Abstract
In a long-term follow-up study in Massachusetts, the author found that most defendants who have been committed as incompetent to stand trial can probably be returned to the courts soon after their hospitalization; that it is in their best interest, unless their charges can be otherwise disposed of, to stand trial as quickly as possible; and that the risk to society posed by their release is no greater, and possibly less, than that of other groups of offenders.
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