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Forensic state patients at Sterkfontein Psychiatric Hospital: a 3-year follow-up of state patients admitted in 2004 and 2005

Forensic psychiatry in South Africa came to be in
the 1970’s following the introduction of the Mental Health Act of
1973 and the Criminal Procedures Act of 1977. Forensic
psychiatric units offer psychiatric observation for defendants
referred from the courts, as well as providing indefinite
detention, for the purpose of treatment and rehabilitation, of
those who have been declared unfit to stand trial and/or not
criminally responsible due to a mental illness or defect. State
patients are mentally ill offenders whose charges involved
serious violence. Ultimately these state patients are released
back into the community. There is a paucity of South African
literature regarding the outcome of state patients.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/13718
Date10 February 2014
CreatorsMarais, Belinda Sue
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis
Formatapplication/pdf, application/pdf

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