Governments are increasingly turning to algorithmic risk assessments when making important decisions, such as whether release criminal defendants before trial. Policymakers assert that providing public servants with advice will improve human predictions and thereby lead better (e.g., fairer) decisions. Yet because many policy decisions require balancing risk-reduction competing goals, improving...

Thirty of the first 45 individuals to receive guilty but mentally ill (GBMI) verdicts in South Carolina were interviewed using a structured interview schedule for diagnosis. The relationship of diagnosis to pretrial evaluation and posttrial conviction treatment are discussed. No person received GBMI in a jury trial. Suggestions to improve the operation of the GBMI verdict are made, as well as a...

Patients with endogenous depression fulfilling Feighner's criteria were included in the trial. All had pretrial scores above 20 on Hamilton's depression rating scale.Drugs were divided into groups A and B. Group A comprised of placebo and d-amphetamine. It was found that all patients who improved with d-amphetamine also improved with tricyclics. Two who did not improve with d-amphetamine did no...