Criminality of Discharged Insanity Acquittees: Fifteen Year Experience in Maryland Reviewed

Footnotes

• The authors acknowledge the assistance in data collection of the Clifton T. Perkins Hospital staff; George Lipman, Esq. and his staff in the Mental Health Division of the Public Defender's Office; and Kurt Schmoke, Esq. and his staff in the Office of the State's Attorney for Baltimore City. The authors also thank the members of the Governor's Task Force on the Defense of Insanity; its staff counsel, Patricia Storch, Esq.; and its chairman, the Honorable J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, for their support and encouragement.

• Dr. Spodak is the Director of Community Forensic Services at Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center; Dr. Silver is Superintendent of Perkins Hospital and an Assistant Director of the Mental Hygiene Administration of Maryland; Ms. Wright is the Community Forensic Aftercare Program Coordinator at Perkins Hospital.

• Reprint requests: Dr. Michael K. Spodak at Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center, Jessup, MD 20794.