Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law
accuracy of responses with school-age children and adolescents. Cognitive interview techniques can also be useful, especially wi ...
heightened sexual activity, such as masturbation and precocious sexual play, or sexually act out toward adults and peers. A subs ...
atmosphere to give and receive support, share similar experiences, and resolve stressful issues. Testifying in Court Approximate ...
in the case of parens patriae criteria and volitional impairment in the case of police power criteria. It also discusses the kin ...
“dangerous to self or others.” The avoidance of danger to self constitutes an application of the state’s parens patriae power; t ...
TThhee MMeeddiiccaall AApppprroopprriiaatteenneessss RReeqquuiirreemmeenntt When an individual is not mentally ill and when hosp ...
others over the next several months. Using a laptop or a desktop computer, COVR guides the evaluator through a brief chart revie ...
Further Readings Monahan, J., Steadman, H., Appelbaum, P., Grisso, T., Mulvey, E., Roth, L., et al. (2005). The classification o ...
wearing clothing that matches the inaccurate descrip- tion are at heightened risk of both apprehension and false identification. ...
Developing Rapport.Witnesses, and especially victims, are often asked to give detailed descriptions of intimate, personal experi ...
witness makes a particular statement) or verbally (by asking leading or suggestive questions, e.g., Was it a red car?). Accuracy ...
later, the witnesses participate in a face-to-face inter- view, which is either the CI or a control interview. The control is ei ...
their trial strategies. A recent study examined the CI’s efficiency in reconstructing a related decision-making task (asking a s ...
Fisher, R. P., Geiselman, R. E., & Amador, M. (1989). Field test of the cognitive interview: Enhancing the recollection of a ...
offenders. Probation or parole can be revoked if an offender commits a new offenseor a technical viola- tionof the conditions go ...
their abilities and motivation (responsivity principle), and target their criminogenic needs or changeable risk factors for reci ...
social services (e.g., housing, social security income) and the mandate that they take psychotropic medica- tion and participate ...
circumstances. Its purpose is to assist forensic evalua- tors in determining competency in defendants with mental retardation. T ...
alter their performance when asked to do poorly. These individuals scored lower than a group of defen- dants with mental retarda ...
articulated by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Dusky v. United States(1960). The trial judge must determine “whether the d ...
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