PSYC39H3 Lecture 9: Lecture 9.docx
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13% absolute discharge pettycrime (very expensive) costs /day. 35% conditional discharge such as no alcohol, no possession of weapons etc. (whatever they see as necessary to lower the person"s risk) person back to the hospital and will hold a new hearing. *ncr: not a new idea, has been in legal systems for millenniums o. Mental disorders and the dsm: tool for diagnosing: o. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm) (north america: in europe: o. International classification of diseases -10 (icd-10: dsm-iv-tr & dsm-v: o. Five axes of diagnoses: use dsm v (but there is a lot of contentions and many practitioneers are diagnosing by dsm. Iv) o board doesn"t want to get involved in tthe debate. *different rules for getting ncrmd than keeping them in mental health system: primarily defined by winko ruling, burden of proof is on the crown to prove on the balance of the probabilities that the individual: o.