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Remanded in Custody for Psychiatric Examination

A review of 83 cases, and a comparison with those remanded in hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

J. K. Binns
Affiliation:
Leverndale Hospital, 510 Crookston Road, Glasgow, S.W.3
J. M. Carlisle
Affiliation:
Leverndale Hospital, 510 Crookston Road, Glasgow, S.W.3
D. H. Nimmo
Affiliation:
Leverndale Hospital, 510 Crookston Road, Glasgow, S.W.3
R. H. Park
Affiliation:
Leverndale Hospital, 510 Crookston Road, Glasgow, S.W.3
N. A. Todd
Affiliation:
Leverndale Hospital, 510 Crookston Road, Glasgow, S.W.3

Extract

The following review deals with all persons remanded for trial or sentence in 1965 and 1966 on whom psychiatric reports were furnished by senior psychiatric staff of Leverndale Hospital, excluding those remanded directly to hospital under Section 54 of the Mental Health (Scotland) Act, 1960, this latter group having been the subject of a previous article by ourselves.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1969 

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Bearcroft, J. S., and Donovan, M. D., (1965). Brit. med. J., ii, 1519–23.Google Scholar
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