PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Levitt, Gwen A. AU - Vora, Illa AU - Tyler, Kelly AU - Arenzon, Liliane AU - Drachman, David AU - Ramos, Gilbert TI - Civil Commitment Outcomes of Incompetent Defendants DP - 2010 Sep 01 TA - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online PG - 349--358 VI - 38 IP - 3 4099 - http://jaapl.org/content/38/3/349.short 4100 - http://jaapl.org/content/38/3/349.full SO - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law2010 Sep 01; 38 AB - In Maricopa County, Arizona, most defendants who are found not competent and not restorable (NCNR) are admitted involuntarily to an acute-care inpatient hospital. Many of these patients would most likely not have met the State's usual admission criteria for acute inpatient care had they not been evaluated in relation to a criminal offense. Is this group treated differently from their peers who are not involved in the criminal justice system? We examined records for 293 NCNR admissions, retrospectively, to assess their admission status and the outcomes of their commitment. We compared them to 280 matched cases of patients admitted involuntarily from the community (non-NCNR). The NCNR group met fewer admission criteria and received court-ordered treatment (COT) 22 percent more often than did the non-NCNR patients. The NCNR patients had longer hospital stays despite being found less dangerous to themselves or others than the community sample. Results suggest that NCNR individuals are treated differently from non-NCNR patients.