Oregon's Juvenile Psychiatric Security Review Board.

Oregon's new insanity defense system: a review of the first five years, 1978 to 1982.

On January I, 1978 Oregon instituted an insanity defense system that is unique in the country. The central feature of that system is the Psychiatric Security Review Board (PSRB). The system was experimental; the statute provided that the PSRB was to cease operation in 3 I h years unless the 1981 legislature renewed its existence. Before and during the 1981 session the Oregon legislature conduct...

Characteristics of persons committed to Oregon's Psychiatric Security Review Board.

On January I. 1978. Oregon began a unique experiment. A five-member board assumed the responsibility of making decisions about the disposition ofthose persons who successfully assert the "insanity defense" to criminal charges. This Psychiatric Security Review Board (PSRB) created by the legislature, I is composed of a psychiatrist, a psychologist. a lawyer. a person familiar with parole and pro...

Treatment delays for involuntary psychiatric patients associated with reviews of treatment capacity.

OBJECTIVE To determine the duration of delays in treatment initiation when involuntary patients apply for a review of a finding of treatment incapacity and to estimate the cost of keeping patients hospitalized without treatment in these circumstances. METHOD Using a computerized database and written records, we identified all patients at 2 psychiatric hospitals in Ontario who applied for a re...

CRIPA, Olmstead, and the transformation of the Oregon Psychiatric Security Review Board.

This commentary explores the relationship among the 1999 U.S. Supreme Court Olmstead decision; the Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, in its application of CRIPA (the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Patients Act); and the application of both CRIPA and Olmstead to the question of individuals hospitalized in state mental institutions following commitment from criminal courts. Using O...

Who defers to whom? The Attorney General targets Oregon's Death with Dignity Act.