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Previous Volume 330:1765-1766 June 16, 1994 Number 24

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(Progress in Psychiatry. No. 41.) By Joseph D. Bloom and Mary H. Williams. 230 pp. Washington, D.C., American Psychiatric Press, 1994. $31. ISBN 0-88048-501-9.

Bloom and Williams offer as a national model Oregon's method of handling insanity acquittees: defendants found "guilty except for insanity" are placed under the jurisdiction of a state Psychiatric Security Review Board (PSRB) -- made up of five part-time professionals meeting weekly -- that oversees their treatment in the state hospital's forensic wards and community mental health clinics. The PSRB can retain responsibility for acquittees throughout the maximal sentence for their crimes -- their "insanity sentence" -- during which it can transfer them, with appropriate hearings on their clinical condition, from hospital to community care or vice versa, or discharge . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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