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Evaluating competencies : forensic assessments and instruments / Thomas Grisso with Randy Borum ... [et al.].
- Title
- Evaluating competencies : forensic assessments and instruments / Thomas Grisso with Randy Borum ... [et al.].
- Author
- Grisso, Thomas
- Publication
- New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c2003.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | KF9242 .G7 2003 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxi, 541 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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
- Perspectives in law & psychology ; v. 7
- Uniform Title
- Perspectives in law & psychology v. 7.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 483-513) and indexes.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 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).
- ISBN
- 0306473437 (hb)
- 0306473445 (pb)
- LCCN
- ^^2002028691
- OCLC
- 50228542
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library