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Oregon's Psychiatric Security Review Board: A Comprehensive System for Managing Insanity Acquittees

JOSEPH D. BLOOM

SPERO M. MANSON

The insanity defense is a particularly controversial aspect of the interaction between law and mental health. During the past decade, many states have revised or abolished their insanity defenses. Oregon, however, chose in 1978 to retain its existing defense and create a new, unique system for the post-adjudication management of insanity acquittees. Oregon's legislature established the Psychiatric Security Review Board (PSRB), which is composed of five part-time members drawn from different disciplines, to conduct periodic hearings to determine the placement and supervision of defendants who successfully raise the insanity defense and remain mentally ill and dangerous. The PSRB has received national attention as a promising approach to managing mentally ill offenders. The authors first describe the structure and operation of the Oregon system. Then they summarize the empirical studies they have conducted of the PSRB in action.

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 484, No. 1, 86-99 (1986)
DOI: 10.1177/0002716286484001007


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