Competence to stand trial (CST) evaluations are a critical part of certain criminal proceedings, and competence‐related evaluation and treatment are an increasing part of public mental health services. Whereas more research describes the defendants undergoing competence evaluations, less research has ...
Participants were asked to make decisions of competency to stand trial and to rate their confidence in the decision for each protocol. Participant decisions were compared to decisions of competency to stand trial rendered by the legal system. Results suggest courts relied on a defendant's ...
The majority of research on competency to stand trial evaluations has focused on males, with research on female defendants being relatively underexplored. Even less is known of diverse female samples referred for competency evaluation. In the current study, we sought to examine whether characteristics ...
As part of a special issue of the Journal on evidence-based forensic practice, this article examines three published competency measures: the MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool-Criminal Adjudication (MacCAT-CA), the Evaluation of Competency to Stand Trial-Revised (ECST-R), and the Competence ...
What is a Competency Evaluation? What is an Opening Statement? Discussion Comments ByRuggercat68— On Dec 18, 2014 I suppose the argument is that if a defendant doesn't have the competency to stand trial, he or she also doesn't bear the criminal responsibility of his or her acts. I've...
competency to stand trialThis Article considers the legal standards for the determination of competency to stand trial, and whether those standards are understood and applied by psychiatrists and psychologists in the forensic evaluations they perform and in the judgments they make鈥搄udgments that are ...
Trauma in Competency to Stand Trial Evaluations The competency to stand trial evaluation has long been identified as the most important inquiry in the area of criminal mental health (American Bar Associa... EA Owen,A Perry,DP Scher 被引量: 0发表: 2020年 Meta-analysis of second generation comp...
This Article considers the legal standards for the determination of competency to stand trial, and whether those standards are understood and applied by ps... SA Smith - 《Psychol Rep》 被引量: 4发表: 1996年 Evaluation and restoration of competency to stand trial. This Article considers the le...
(2007). Com- petency to stand trial. In G. B. Melton, J. Petrila, N. G. Poythress, & C. Slobogin, Psychological evaluations for the courts (3rd ed.) (pp. 125- 164). New York: Guilford Press.Competency to stand trial. Brunner/Mazel....
U.S. which involved what it took for a criminal defendant to be found competent to stand trial. The court stated a defendant had to have a rational as well as a factual understanding of the proceedings and be able to assist counsel with a reasonable degree of rational understanding. ...