There are little published data on the characteristics or outcomes of offenders found unfit to stand trial who receive a ‘qualified finding of guilt’ in a Special Hearing in New South Wales (NSW) and are detained for a ‘limiting term’ (LT) under the supervision of the NSW Mental Health Review Tribunal (MHRT). We examined NSW MHRT records linked to re-offending data, to report on the characteristics and outcomes of 69 LT patients in a cohort spanning two decades. The most common diagnoses were schizophrenia (54%) and intellectual disability (33%). Patients were detained on average for 4.2 years, which is slightly shorter than the average maximum term imposed. Of the 55 people for whom criminal record data were available, 9.1% were charged with an offence during the first year post-release and 60% overall were charged for at least one post-release offence during a follow-up period ranging from 4.7 to 11.1 years.

关于在新南威尔士州 (NSW) 举行的特别听证会上获得“合格的有罪认定”并根据“限制期限”(LT) 被拘留的罪犯的特征或结果，几乎没有公布的数据表明他们不适合受审。新南威尔士州心理健康审查法庭（MHRT）的监督。我们检查了与再犯数据相关的新南威尔士州 MHRT 记录，以报告跨越 20 年的队列中 69 名 LT 患者的特征和结果。最常见的诊断是精神分裂症（54%）和智力障碍（33%）。患者平均被拘留 4.2 年，略短于平均最长刑期。在可获得犯罪记录数据的 55 人中，有 9 人。