PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Williams, Mary H.
AU  - Bloom, Joseph D.
AU  - Faulkner, Larry R.
AU  - Rogers, Jeffrey L.
AU  - Godard, Sally L.
TI  - Drug Treatment Refusal and Length of Hospitalization of insanity Acquittees
DP  - 1988 Sep 01
TA  - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
PG  - 279--284
VI  - 16
IP  - 3
4099  - http://jaapl.org/content/16/3/279.short
4100  - http://jaapl.org/content/16/3/279.full
SO  - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law1988 Sep 01; 16
AB  - Thirty-three insanity acquittees who had refused drug treatment were matched to a sample of nonrefusing hospitalized insanity acquittees in an attempt to measure the effect of treatment refusal on length of hospital stay. No measurable effects on the length of hospitalization were found. However, upon comparing the amount of time under court jurisdiction spent in the hospital and on conditional release in the community, it becomes evident that refusers spent significantly greater proportions of time hospitalized than the average hospitalized insanity acquittee, who had less hospitalization and spent more time on conditional release. These differences do not seem to be related to the issue of treatment refusal.