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106 MARYLAND MANUAL Court returns the offender to the correctional system institution from whence he came. If the Institution recommends that the offender be confined at the Institution, the Court promptly provides a hearing; sitting as a Court or with a Jury, as the defendant may choose, and must find by a special verdict whether or not the offender is a de- fective delinquent as defined in Article 31B. A defective delinquent is defined as "an individual who, by the demonstration of persistent aggravated antisocial or criminal behavior, evidences a propensity toward criminal activity, and who is found to have either such intel- lectual deficiency or emotional unbalance, or both, as to clearly dem- onstrate an actual danger to society so as to require such confinement and treatment, when appropriate, as may make it reasonably safe for society to terminate the confinement and treatment." Sentences under Article 31B are for indeterminate duration, subject to the order of the Institutional Board of Review or the Courts. The Institution offers complete medical, psychiatric, psychological, and social casework serv- ices. In addition the institution is equipped and staffed for complete academic, vocational, recreational, and religious service. In addition to patient care, the Institution carries on extensive re- search studies concerning treatment, diagnosis, education, and related studies. Advisory Board for Defective Delinquents Chairman: Manfred S. Guttmacher, M.D., Professor of Psy- chiatry, University of Maryland Medical School Secretary: L, Whiting Farinholt, Jr., Professor of Law in Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Law Jerome D. Frank, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, The Johns Hopkins Medical School; Peter P. Lejins, Ph.D., Sociologist, University of Maryland; James S. Coleman, Ph.D., Sociolo- gist, The Johns Hopkins University; Paul G. Wolman, Di- rector, Department of Parole and Probation; Elsbeth Levy, member of the Maryland Bar, 1966; Francis D. Murnaghan, member of the Maryland Bar, 1966. Chapter 629, Acts of 1961 also provided for the establishment of an Advisory Board for Defective Delinquents. This Board consists of the professor of psychiatry in the Medical School of the University of Maryland, or someone designated by him; the professor of psy- chiatry at the Johns Hopkins Medical School, or someone designated by him; two competent sociologists from the University of Maryland and the Johns Hopkins University, one each to be appointed by the respective presidents of these two institutions; the full-time pro- fessor of constitutional law at the University of Maryland School of Law, or if there be no such full-time professor, or if he is unable to serve, such other full-time professor of the University of Maryland School of Law as may be designated by the dean of said school; the Director of Parole and Probation; and two practicing members of the Maryland bar, with at least five years' experience in the trial of civil and/or criminal cases, appointed by the Governor each to serve for a five-year term. The Advisory Board confers with the Director and Staff of the Institution and gives general consultative and advisory serv- ices on problems and matters relating to professional and legal re- lationships of patients confined in the Institution. Institutional Board of Review Chairman: Harold M. Boslow, M.D., Director of Patuxent Institution |
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