Competence to waive interrogation rights and adjudicative competence in adolescent defendants: cognitive development, attorney contact, and psychological symptoms.

The MacArthur Adjudicative Competence Study: a comparison of criteria for assessing the competence of criminal defendants.

A set of measures assessing competence-related abilities was administered to three groups of criminal defendants: a group committed for restoration of competence, a group identified by jail personnel as mentally ill but not incompetent, and a group without identified mental disorder. Data from this study were used to test key assumptions bearing on the legal criteria for adjudicative competence...

Pre-adjudicative and adjudicative competence in juveniles and young adults.

There are several different types of legal competence, such as competence to waive Miranda rights, competence to confess, and competence to stand trial. Although it can be surmised that many of the underlying factors that influence the different legal competencies are similar, little research has been conducted to empirically test this hypothesis. In the present study, juveniles' and young adul...

Depression in jailed women defendants and its relationship to their adjudicative competence.

This study examines the relationship between depression, as measured by four indices, and jailed women defendants' adjudicative competence ("competency to stand trial"). Competence was assessed by the MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool-Criminal Adjudication (MacCAT-CA) in three areas: understanding, reasoning, and appreciation. Depression was not significantly correlated with any competence m...

AAPL Practice Guideline for the forensic psychiatric evaluation of competence to stand trial.

Competence to stand trial is a legal construct used to identify those criminal defendants who have the requisite mental capacity to understand the nature and objective of the proceedings against them and to participate rationally in preparing their defense. This Practice Guideline has described how psychiatrists should evaluate individuals concerning their competence to stand trial. The Guideli...

WORKING PAPER FOR THE MacARTHUR RESEARCH NETWORK ON ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT AND JUVENILE JUSTICE METHOD, MEASURES, AND PROCEDURES FOR THE JUVENILE ADJUDICATIVE COMPETENCE STUDY