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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
COMPETENCY TO STAND TRIAL. 来自 EBSCO 喜欢 0 阅读量: 13 作者:Wertkin,Jeffrey,A.摘要: Discusses the U.S. constitutional rule on the competency standard for standing trial. Requirements for initiating a competency hearing; Duties of courts upon finding of incompetency....
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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 ...
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Criminal defendants with paranoid disorders are frequently referred by the courts for evaluation of competency to stand trial. While these defendants share with other psychologically-based referrals potential difficulty rationally understanding the proceedings, they also present unique challenges for the psychol...
Although several studies have examined demographic and clinical variables associated with findings of incompetency to stand trial (IST), few studies have examined factors influencing competency restoration success. This study is among the first to longitudinally examine demographic variables and mental health...