Paper
Guidelines
The paper should be between 8 and 10 pages long (doubled
spaced)
The term paper/forensic analysis should describe the
real case in detail and provide an analysis of the psychological, psychosocial
and biological aspects of the case.
Please address issues of competency to stand trial based
on what we have gone over in class.
Your paper should begin with an introduction where
you can give an overview of the diagnosis and criminal case.
Then in the body of the paper you should
write about examples from the case which depicts psychopathology and discuss
whether you believe the individual should be considered competent to stand
trial.
In addition, please include a critique as to
whether you believe the correct verdict or treatment was given in the
case.
Please use 8 empirical articles as references
for this paper.
What we went over in Class:
Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity and
Guilty but Mentally Ill
· Savitsky,
J.C. & Lindblom W.D. (1986). The Impact of the Guilty but Mentally Ill
Verdict on Juror Decisions: An empirical analysis. Journal of Applied Social Psychology; 16(8):
686-701.
· Vitacco
M.J., Vauter, R., Erickson, S.K. & Ragatz, L. (2014).
Evaluating conditional release in not guilty by reason of insanity
acquittees: a prospective follow-up study in virginia. Law and Human Behavior;
38(4): 346-56.
Clinical Opinions and Decision-Making
· Lee, E.,
Rosner, R. & Harmon, R. (2014). Mental Illness and Legal fitness (competence)
to stand trial in New York State: Expert
Opinion and Criminal Defendants’ Psychiatric Symptoms. Journal of Forensic Science; 59 (4):
1008-1015.
· Paradis,
C.M., Owen, E., Solomon, et al.
(2016). Competency to stand trial
evaluations in a multicultural population: associations between psychiatric,
demographic and legal factors. International
Journal of Law and Psychiatry; 47, 79-85.
· Campinha-Bacote,
J. (2017). Cultural considerations in forensic
psychiatry: the issue of forced medication.
International Journal of Law and Psychiatry; 50, 1-8.
Competence Evaluation Systems
· Neal, T.
& Grisso, T. (2014). Assessment practices and expert judgment
methods in forensic psychology and psychiatry; an international snapshot. Criminal Justice and Behavior; 41(12);
1406-21.
· Chauhan,
P., Kois, L., Warren, J. & Wellbeloved-Stone, J. (2015).
The significance of combining evaluations of competency to stand trial
and sanity at the time of the offense. Psychology,
Public Policy & Law, 21(1): 50-59.
Evaluation of Trial Competence
· Archer,
R.P., Wheeler, E.M.A., & Vauter, R.A. (2016). Empirically supported forensic assessment.
Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 23(4): 348-364.
· Fogel,
M.H., Schiffman, W., Mumley, D., Tillbrook, C. & Grisso, T. (2013).
Ten Year Research pdate (2001-2010): Evaluations for competence to stand
trial (Adjudicative Competence). Behavioral
Sciences and the Law, 31: 165-191.
· Gowensmith,
W.N., Murrie, D.C. Boccaccini, M.T.
(2013). How reliable are forensic evaluations of legal sanity? Law and Human Behavior; 37(2): 98-106.
Instruments used to assess Competence to
Stand Trial
· Grisso,
T., Cocozza, J.J., Steadman, H.J., Fisher, W.H., & Greer, A. (1994).The organization of pretrial forensic
evaluation services. Law and Human Behavior, 18 (4): 377-393.
· DeMatteo,
D., Edens, J.F., Galloway, M. et al. (2014).
Investigating the role of the psychopathy checklist-revised in United
States case law. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law; 20(1):
96-107.
· McLaughlin,
J.L. & Kan, L.Y. (2014). Test usage
in four common types of forensic mental health assessment. Professional Psychology: Research and
Practice; 45(2): 128-135.
· Gottfried,
E.D., Hudson, B.L., Vitacco, M.J. & Carbonell, J.L. (2015).
Improving the detection of feigned knowledge deficits in defendants
adjudicated incompetent to stand trial. Assessment: 1-12.
Competence Assessment for Standing Trial
for Defendants who lack of insight/special populations
· Reisner,
A.D., Piel, J. & Makey, M.
(2013). Competency to stand trial
and defendants who lack insight into their mental illness. Journal of American
Academy of Psychiatry and Law; 41, 85-91.
· Ericson,
K.I. & Perlman, N.B. (2001). Knowledge of Legal Terminology and Court Proceedings
in adults with developmental disabilities.
Law and Human Behavior; 25(5): 529-545
· Vernon,
M., Steinberg, A.G. & Montoya, L.A.
(1999). Deaf murderers: clinical
and forensic issues. Behavioral Sciences
and the Law; 17: 495-516.
Treatment of Defendants Adjudicated
Incompetent
· Gowensmith
W.N. Bryant A.E., & Vitacco M.J.
(2014). Decision-making in post-acquittal hospital release: how forensic
evaluators make their decisions?
Behavioral Sciences and the Law; 32, 596-607.
· Jackson,
S.L., Warren, J.I. & Coburn, J.J.
(2014). A community-based model
for remediating juveniles adjudicated incompetent to stand trial: feedback from
youth, attorneys and judges. Juvenile & Family Court Journal, 65(2): 23-38.
· Siegal,
A.M. & Elwork, A. (1990). Treating Incompetence to Stand Trial. Law and Human Behavior; 14(1): 57-65.
Competency Restoration
· Johnson,
N.R. & Candilis, P.J. (2015). Outpatient competence restoration: a model
and outcomes. World Journal of
Psychiatry; 5(2): 228-33.
· Zapf,
P.A. & Roesch, R. (2011). Future Directions in the restoration of
competency to stand trial. Current
Directions in Psychological Science; 20(1): 43-47
· Morris,
D.R. & DeYoung, N.J. (2014). Long-term competence restoration. Journal of American Academy of Psychiatry Law; 42:
81-90.
· Bertman,
L.J., Thompson, J.W., Waters, W.F. et al.
(2003). Effect of an
individualized treatment protocol on restoration of competency in pretrial
forensic patients. Journal of American Academy 31: 27-35.
