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- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Perspectives in Law & Psychology (PILP, volume 16)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Evaluating Competencies
Book Subtitle: Forensic Assessments and Instruments
Authors: Thomas Grisso, Randy Borum, John F. Edens, Jennifer Moye, Randy K. Otto
Series Title: Perspectives in Law & Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b106006
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-47343-2Published: 30 November 2002
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-306-47344-9Published: 31 October 2002
eBook ISBN: 978-0-306-47922-9Published: 27 January 2006
Series ISSN: 0160-4422
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXI, 541
Topics: General Psychology, Law and Psychology, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Clinical Psychology, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law, Public Health