Mild mental retardation capacity of the offenders responsibility to assess factors.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 12 Mild mental retardation capacity of the offender’s responsibility to assess factors [Keywords:] crime; forensic psychiatry; Responsibility [Abstract] Objective To investigate the mild mental retardation (MMR) ability to assess criminal responsibility for the decision of those factors, provide a reference for judicial appraisal. Methods 79 patients with MMR criminal cases of forensic psychiatric appraisal data of a multi-factor analysis, statistics of the Logistic stepwise regression analysis. Results from the Evaluation of Responsibility must significance is the ability to identify and control, and psychiatric history, crime type, methods of crime, common sense, affective disorder, self-protection factors such as murder and theft, also have significant effect. Conclusion The ability of accountability for crimes against MMR assessed, the need to give full consideration to a variety of other sociological addition to biology, law, a comprehensive analysis of factors. [Keywords:] crime; forensic psychiatry; Responsibility Evaluation on responsibilities of offenders with mild mental retardation [Abstract] Objective To study the determined factors related to the responsibilities of offenders with mild mental retardation.Methods Seventynine criminals were undergone psychiatric evaluation by justice.The data were performed multifactor analysis, the logistic regression method was employed to analyse the outcome statistically.Results The identifiability and controllability were the key characteristics to evaluate the responsibilities of the criminals with mild mental retardation.Other influencing factors were psychiatric history, types and manner of crime, judging ability, affective disorders and selfprotection.Conclusion Social and legal factors should be considered in evaluating the responsibilities of criminals. [Keywords:] crime; forensic psychiatry; responsibility Mental retardation in the forensic psychiatric appraisal of the more com