Study of Rating Scale of Mentally Prisoner′s Competency to Serve a Sentence

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Abstract: Objective To create an instrument to determine the mental prisoners′competency to serve a sen-tence, which is according with the Chinese legal system. Methods Integrating the Chinese criminal jurispru-dence and the authors′forensic psychiatric experience, the research team created an instrument which calledCompetency to serve a sentence Rating scale firstly, then used the instrument retrospectively, in the end the va-lidity and reliability of the instrument were inspected and, through an diagnostic test, the feasibility of the in-strument was evaluated Results Homogeneity reliability of the instrument is 0.8779, the correspondence of theconclusion between the instrument and the expertise is 0.909, except the positive likelihood ratio is 0.0683, theother diagnostic index are better. Conclusion The Competency to serve a sentence Rating Scale is feasible.

Key words: competency to serve a sentence, mental prisoner, rating scale

HUANG FU-YIN;ZHANG QIN-TING;LU CHENG-RONG;ET AL. (INSTITUTE OF FORENSIC SCIENCE;MINISTRY OF JUS-TICE;P.R.CHINA;SHANGHAI 000;CHINA). Study of Rating Scale of Mentally Prisoner′s Competency to Serve a Sentence[J]. , 2005, 0(3): 200-202.

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