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The study is done to investigate the predictive variables of malingering among arrested/convicted cases and the clinical characteristics of malingerers.The study includes 70 arrested/convicted male cases internalized for their treatment. Aform to collect clinical or sociodemografic data, Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Disorders (SCID I), Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R (SCID II), Symptom Check-list (SCL-90-R) and Rey Memory Test (RMT) are applied. Two independent psychiatrists, without being part of the study diagnosed malingering.Arrested cases reported mostly psychotic like and convicted cases mostly depression like symptoms. RMT is helpful by malingering and SCL-90-R psychotic symptom and paranoid symptom subscale scores were both correlated negatively when compared to the RMT scores by malingerers. Axis-I or Axis-II diagnosis were found out to be more predictive than other clinical variables to determine malingering.This study indicate that clinicians have to take malingering into account especially by arrested and convicted cases applied for treatment and they have to be careful by doing the differential diagnosis. Large sample studies conducted with arrested and convicted cases and surveys by grouping cases according to the expertise and treatment services may provide additional data related to malingering.