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ArticlePsychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law2021

Characteristics and re-offending outcomes of 'limiting-term' forensic patients found unfit to stand trial in New South Wales, Australia.

Timothy Wu, Sara Singh, Georgia Lyons, Olav Nielssen, Richard Kemp, Anina Johnson, Kimberlie Dean

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Timothy WuSchool of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5010-261X
Sara SinghSchool of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Georgia LyonsSchool of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Olav NielssenSchool of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Richard KempSchool of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Anina JohnsonNew South Wales Mental Health Review Tribunal, Sydney, Australia.
Kimberlie DeanSchool of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3510-5892

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There are little published data on the characteristics or outcomes of offenders found unfit to stand trial who receive a 'qualified finding of guilt' in a Special Hearing in New South Wales (NSW) and are detained for a 'limiting term' (LT) under the supervision of the NSW Mental Health Review Tribunal (MHRT). We examined NSW MHRT records linked to re-offending data, to report on the characteristics and outcomes of 69 LT patients in a cohort spanning two decades. The most common diagnoses were schizophrenia (54%) and intellectual disability (33%). Patients were detained on average for 4.2 years, which is slightly shorter than the average maximum term imposed. Of the 55 people for whom criminal record data were available, 9.1% were charged with an offence during the first year post-release and 60% overall were charged for at least one post-release offence during a follow-up period ranging from 4.7 to 11.1 years.

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detentionforensic patientsincompetentlimiting termmental health review tribunalre-offendingtrialunfit

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PMID35571596
PMCPMC9103276

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