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Comparing Females Acquitted by Reason of Insanity, Convicted, and Civilly Committed in Florida: 1977-1984
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Comparing Females Acquitted by Reason of Insanity, Convicted, and Civilly Committed in Florida: 1977-1984

Kirk Heilbrun, Patricia Griffin Heilbrun and Nelwyn Griffin
Law and human behavior, v 12(3), pp 295-311
Sep 1988
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01044386
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Abstract

Females who had been acquitted by reason of insanity (N = 41), convicted of comparable offenses (N = 41), and involuntarily hospitalized without criminal involvement (N = 41) were matched for age and race. The psychiatric histories of the acquitted and civilly committed women were similar, and significantly more extensive than the convicted group. The acquitted women had been arrested significantly more often than the civilly committed women but less frequently than the convicted women. Total length of stay (hospitalization or imprisonment) reflected a similar pattern, with civilly committed women hospitalized for the shortest period, acquitted women an intermediate period, and convicted women the longest. Regression-based prediction of length of stay reflected a number of common predictors for the acquitted and convicted women, with offense type one of the most powerful for both groups.

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