TY - JOUR T1 - Offenders With Substance Abuse Who Receive Mandatory Psychiatric Treatment JF - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online JO - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law SP - 316 LP - 324 VL - 45 IS - 3 AU - Pei-Chuan Wu AU - Yu-Ching Chou AU - Hui-Wen Yeh AU - San-Yuan Huang AU - Li-Hsiang Cheng AU - Yu-Chen Kao AU - Hsin-An Chang AU - Nian-Sheng Tzeng Y1 - 2017/09/01 UR - http://jaapl.org/content/45/3/316.abstract N2 - We examined the mandatory treatment referral rates before and after Taiwan's Penal Code revision of 2006 and factors associated with the mandatory treatment in Taiwan of criminals who engage in substance abuse. The 3,467 offenders who underwent forensic psychiatric assessments, based on Taiwan's court sentence dataset, included 3,163 offenders with substance-abuse–related crimes, but only 412 (13%) received mandatory treatment. There were no changes in mandatory treatment referral rates before and after the revision. The three main factors that determined whether an offender received mandatory psychiatric treatment were an agreement by the forensic psychiatrist and the presiding judge attesting to the lack of legal responsibility during the commission of the offense, the presence of substance-related psychosis, and location of the court in a rural area. ER -