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Men Remanded into Custody for Medical Reports: The Outcome of the Treatment Recommendation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Paul Bowden
Paul Bowden*
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry; St George's Hospital, London SW17
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Summary

Over a three-month period, 634 men were remanded into custody at Brixton Prison for medical reports; 87 received recommendations for psychiatric treatment and 82 individuals were actually referred to hospitals for treatment. Fourteen months later nearly three-quarters of the men who went to hospital had been discharged. They fell into three groups by outcome: men with acute psychoses for whom treatment was definitely beneficial; men who remained behaviourally disturbed after receiving treatment although their mental states improved; a group with chronic disorders for whom admission was not beneficial. The two groups with improved mental states represented only 5 per cent of the initial receptions to Brixton Prison.

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Meeting Report
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 133 , Issue 4 , October 1978 , pp. 332 - 338
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1978 

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