---
kind: "unit"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
key: "ptIII/ch313"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 313"
heading: "Offenders with Mental Disease or Defect"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/ptIII-ch313"
sections_count: 8
---

# Chapter 313 — Offenders with Mental Disease or Defect

Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Part III — Prisons and Prisoners

## Sections

- [§4241. Determination of mental competency to stand trial to undergo postrelease proceedings](/usc/18/4241.md)
- [§4242. Determination of the existence of insanity at the time of the offense](/usc/18/4242.md)
- [§4243. Hospitalization of a person found not guilty only by reason of insanity](/usc/18/4243.md)
- [§4244. Hospitalization of a convicted person suffering from mental disease or defect](/usc/18/4244.md)
- [§4245. Hospitalization of an imprisoned person suffering from mental disease or defect](/usc/18/4245.md)
- [§4246. Hospitalization of a person due for release but suffering from mental disease or defect](/usc/18/4246.md)
- [§4247. General provisions for chapter](/usc/18/4247.md)
- [§4248. Civil commitment of a sexually dangerous person](/usc/18/4248.md)