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"The Fitness Factory," Part I: The Psychiatrist's Role in Determining Competency

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.10.1144

This article is the first in a series on the work of the New York City Forensic Psychiatry Clinic, which performs mental competency evaluations of defendants appearing before the New York City Criminal Court. The author describes the clinic's philosophy regarding competency and contrasts its roles before and after the enactment of the new Criminal Procedure Law that granted considerably broader powers to the clinic.

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