Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law

requirements has been articulated by the University of Virginia law professor Richard Bonnie. This theory distinguishes between ...

“competency to stand trial,” and many of the interview guides and competency assessment instruments devel- oped for forensic exa ...

restoration treatment. This innovation is also politically attractive, as the services are much less costly. The majority of IST ...

video-recorded demonstrations, role-playing, written exercises, and handouts. Group format training offers the advantage of not ...

stand trial in pretrial forensic patients.Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 31 (1), 27–35. Jackson v. I ...

score of 5 relates to no impairment, or adequate capacity to function. A score of 6 is given when there is insufficient informat ...

countries has as one of its bases the presumption of competence. That is, all defendants are presumed competent unless this issu ...

might exist which would make the punishment unjust or unlawful, or lacks the ability to convey such infor- mation to the court. ...

may be the fact that only a handful of individuals have made successful claims of incompetency to be exe- cuted. In addition, th ...

A response that clearly relates to one of the legal crite- ria receives a score of 2. Responses characterized as redundant, circ ...

why he or she is being sentenced). Other jurisdictions hold that sentencing is part of the trial, therefore the defendant must m ...

mental illness and/or dementia, on the other hand, sometimes lose their ability to reason abstractly and to understand legal pro ...

a number of specialized tests that can assist the clini- cian in evaluating the psychological factors relevant to the voluntary ...

Competency to stand trial is the most common type of criminal forensic evaluation, with approximately 60,000 evaluations conduct ...

health professional’s report. Although the determina- tion of a defendant’s competency status is a legal deci- sion, research ha ...

Research has demonstrated that there is generally good agreement among evaluators with respect to overall decisions regarding co ...

Melton, G. B., Petrila, J., Poythress, N. G., & Slogobin, C. (1997). Psychological valuations for the courts: A handbook for ...

the death sentence. Not uncommonly, the desire of the death-sentenced volunteer to accelerate execution is not shared by his or ...

whether he is suffering from a mental disease, disor- der, or defect which may substantially affect his capacity in the premises ...

Norman, M. T. (1998). Standards and procedures for determining whether a defendant is competent to make the ultimate choice—deat ...