Grisso / Borum / Moye Evaluating Competencies

Forensic Assessments and Instruments
2. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-306-47922-9
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 16, 553 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Perspectives in Law & Psychology

As in its first edition, this book offers a conceptual model for understanding the nature of legal competencies. The model is interpreted to assist mental health professionals in designing and performing assessments for legal competencies defined in criminal and civil law, and to guide research that will improve the practice of evaluations for legal competencies. A special feature is the book's evaluative review of specialized forensic assessment instruments for each of several legal competencies. Three-fourths of the 37 instruments reviewed in the second edition are new and thus were not reviewed in the first edition. Application of the assessment model and reviews of instruments are provided for six areas of legal competence: -Competence to Stand Trial; -Waiver of Rights to Silence and Legal Counsel; -Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity; -Parenting Capacity - Determination of Child Custody; -Guardianship and Conservatorship; and -Competence to Consent to Treatment.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grisso, Thomas

Borum, Randy

Moye, Jennifer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Advances in Assessments for Legal Competencies.- Legally Relevant Assessments for Legal Competencies.- Empirical Assessments for Legal Competencies.- Competence to Stand Trial.- Waiver of Rights to Silence and Legal Counsel.- Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity.- Parenting Capacity.- Guardianship and Conservatorship.- Competence to Consent to Treatment.- Developing and Using Forensic Assessment Instruments.