18 Forensic – 2
| T | F | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Adversarial cases are always tried by jury. |  |  |
| 2. The patient has the right to object to a Court of Protection order. |  |  |
| 3. Consent to operate on a severely mentally handicapped person may be given by a doctor. |  |  |
| 4. In overtly aggressive patients, it is dangerous to interpret the patient’s anger. |  |  |
| 5. Medicolegal reports requested by the Court should always be revealed to both parties. |  |  |
| 6. Regarding medical reports in litigation cases, the psychiatrist is in a contractual relationship with the litigant for the report. |  |  |
| 7. Fitness to plead is affected by amnesia for the criminal event. |  |  |
| 8. Compensation neurosis is particularly common after accidents involving loss of consciousness. |  |  |
| 9. Two-thirds of juvenile offenders have a family history of high crime rate. |  |  |
| 10. Indecent exposure is most likely to be directed at teenagers. |  |  |
| 11. Aetiological possibilities in a 65-year-old male with a good pre-morbid personality who exposes himself in public for the first time include pneumonia. |  |  |
| 12. In sex offenders with learning disabilities the ineffectiveness of preventative work is indicated by the increasing number of hospital orders. |  |  |
| 13. People with learning difficulties are more likely to commit serious acts of violence. |  |  |
| 14. A full history and mental state examination will in most cases result in disclosure of intra-familial abuse. |  |  |
| 15. The accounts of patients who report memories of sexual abuse for the first time during or after psychological therapy are usually reliable. |  |  |
| 16. Young girls are twice as likely as young boys to be targeted by paedophiles. |  |  |
| 17. Erotomania is the commonest delusion in stalkers. |  |  |
| 18. A 50-year-old woman with no previous offences is convicted of shoplifting. It is likely that she was depressed at the time of the offence. |  |  |
| 19. Arsonists are over-represented among learning-disabled offenders. |  |  |
| 20. A conviction of arson leads to a compulsory custodial sentence. |  |  |
| 21. Alcohol is frequently associated with crimes of murder. |  |  |
| 22. McNaughton was acquitted of murder on grounds of insanity. |  |  |
| 23. In homicide followed by suicide, there are more likely to be multiple murders. |  |  |
