Explanation of terms
#District-psychiatrist (NL:districtspsychiater):
forensic-psychiatrist employed by the government, who examines in a certain
region of the Netherlands people in custody, suspected of a psychiatric
disorder and eventually treats them too.
#Forensic-psychiatric-examination-clinic
(Name: Pieter Baan Centrum) Forensic-psychiatric hospital in Utrecht specialized
in clinical forensic-psychiatric examinations. These examinations are also
conducted in forensic wards of general psychiatric hospitals and sometimes
in "common" closed wards of psychiatric hospitals.
#Multi-disciplinary psychiatric
evaluation: Consists mostly of elaborate life-history
with family-backgrounds, a psychiatric anamnesis and examination, a psychological
examination and psychological testing, a general physical and neurological
examination and an observation of conduct during the 7 weeks stay.
#FOBA: NL-short for Forensic Observation
and Treatment Ward (of a prison).
#TBS-clinic: a State- or Private-(but closely
controlled by the government) forensic-psychiatric treatment hospital appointed
to treat people with a TBS-verdict.
#TBS-selection-institute:(Name: Meyers
Instituut) institute that selects the most suited TBS-clinic for the patient,
by clinical observation and/or evaluation of the existing psychiatric reports.
#entirely-not-responsible: somebody with a psychiatric disorder who has committed a (proven) crime can, according to the relation between the crime and the disorder, be declared entirely responsible, in some degree diminished responsible, diminished responsible, strongly diminished responsible or entirely not responsible for the crime committed. For the part they are responsible a certain time in jail is set, after which the treatment takes place.