Abstract：
:The United States Supreme Court, in the recent case of Riggins v. Nevada, extended its examination of the issue of involuntary treatment with anti-psychotic medication to the mentally disabled facing criminal trial. Although this was an extreme case where the defendant faced a possible death sentence, the involuntary administration of anti-psychotic medication to restore 'competency to stand trial' always raises unique medical and moral questions. This highly controversial issue has received little empirical investigation. We report here on the first study to follow-up on the disposition of the criminal charges of persons committed to a hospital for the restoration of 'competency to stand trial' who refused anti-psychotic medication and for whom involuntary treatment was sought. We have previously reported on the characteristics of these cases (N = 68) and aspects of their outcome in the hospital. This cohort of patients represents virtually all indicted felony offenders in New York state who were incompetent to stand trial and for whom involuntary treatment with anti-psychotic medication was requested between 1986 and 1990. The present retrospective report focuses on the disposition of the criminal charges for such cases, in a state that does not have a death penalty. Tentative inferences are considered based on the findings that persons who were involuntarily restored to 'competency to stand trial' had a variety of dispositions of their criminal charges, including plea negotiations that resulted in foreshortened incarceration and several cases of insanity acquittals. Suggestions for further and more conclusive studies are proposed.
journal_name
J Forensic Scijournal_title
Journal of forensic sciencesauthors
Ladds B,Convit A,Zito J,Vitrai Jsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
1993-11-01 00:00:00pages
1442-59issue
6eissn
0022-1198issn
1556-4029journal_volume
38pub_type
杂志文章abstract：:Six multiplex PCR systems using single-base extension reactions to analyze 46 mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)-coding region single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that define 42 haplogroups, that is, 24 major mtDNA haplogroups and 18 subclades, were devised. To improve the usefulness of the established systems for the analy...
journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/1556-4029.12961
更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/1556-4029.12067
更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1556-4029.2010.01337.x
更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type：
doi：10.1111/1556-4029.13752
更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1556-4029.2006.00262.x
更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type：
doi：10.1111/1556-4029.14010
更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1556-4029.2007.00411.x
更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/1556-4029.12172
更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 传,历史文章,杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This research tests the accuracy of age-at-death estimation from the sternal end of the fourth rib. Age was estimated using the Işcan and Loth casts and written descriptions. The correlation results indicate that there are significant differences in the observed versus actual ages (r = 0.75329, p < 0.001) and that the...
journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1556-4029.2010.01415.x
更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/1556-4029.12580
更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1556-4029.2011.01946.x
更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1556-4029.2011.01757.x
更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1556-4029.2009.01234.x
更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1111/j.1556-4029.2009.01122.x
更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1556-4029.2008.00902.x
更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Hunting gazelle is an offense according to Israeli law. When comparative isoelectric focusing was performed on bloodstains made from gazelle, goat, sheep, and cow blood, the pattern obtained from gazelle hemoglobin differed from those of the other animals tested. The use of this difference in hemoglobin pattern is sug...
journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/1556-4029.14146
更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/1556-4029.12977
更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/1556-4029.13175
更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1556-4029.2010.01450.x
更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Skeletal remains discovered at a construction site in Georgia display classic "butterfly" fractures on several long bones. Although this fracture pattern is usually associated with perimortem trauma, in this case taphonomic indicators demonstrate that they can also occur on dry defleshed bone. Variations in bone color...
journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00
