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Evaluating competencies : forensic assessments and instruments / Thomas Grisso with Randy Borum ... [et al.].

Title
  1. Evaluating competencies : forensic assessments and instruments / Thomas Grisso with Randy Borum ... [et al.].
Published by
  1. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c2003.
Author
  1. Grisso, Thomas

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Description
  1. xxi, 541 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. "This second edition is a restatement of the theory, a review of what happened to the field since the theory was first introduced 15 years ago, and its application to a new generation of forensic assessment instruments that has evolved in that time."--Page x.
Series statement
  1. Perspectives in law & psychology ; v. 7
Uniform title
  1. Perspectives in law & psychology v. 7.
Subject
  1. Competency to stand trial > United States
  2. Forensic Psychiatry > legislation & jurisprudence
  3. Forensic psychiatry > United States
  4. Insanity (Law) > United States
  5. Insanity Defense
  6. Mental Competency > psychology
  7. United States
Contents
  1. Advances in Assessments for Legal Competencies -- Legal Competencies -- Legal Competencies in the Criminal Process -- Legal Competencies in Civil Cases -- Improving Evaluations for Legal Competencies: How Far Have We Come? -- Ignorance and Irrelevance -- Intrusion -- Insufficiency and Incredibility -- The Value of a Conceptual Model -- Legally Relevant Assessments for Legal Competencies -- Five Components of Legal Competencies -- Functional Component -- Causal Component -- Interactive Component -- Judgmental and Dispositional Components -- Empirical Assessments for Legal Competencies -- Forensic Assessment Instruments -- Objectives of Forensic Assessment Instruments -- The Need for Evaluation of Forensic Assessment Instruments -- Standards for Forensic Assessment Instruments -- Conceptual Basis: Defining Legally Relevant Functional Abilities -- Psychometric Development -- Construct Validation -- Predictive or Classificatory Utility -- Potential for Expressing Person-Situation Congruency -- Orientation to the Instrument Reviews -- Discovery and Selection of the Instruments -- Purposes and Outline of the Review Chapters -- Competence to Stand Trial -- The Competence Question -- Law and Current Practice -- From Legal Standard to Forensic Assessment -- Review of Forensic Assessment Instruments -- MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool-Criminal Adjudication (MacCAT-CA) -- Fitness Interview Test--Revised (FIT-R) -- Competence Assessment for Standing Trial for Defendants with Mental Retardation (CAST-MR).
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 483-513) and indexes.
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