Competence-to-stand-trial evaluations of geriatric defendants

Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 252-256

  Frierson, Richard L ^a   Shea, Steven J ^a   Shea, Mary E Craig ^a  

^a William S Hall Psychiat Institute ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CALCULATION; COMPETENCE; COMPREHENSION; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURT; DEMENTIA; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; GERIATRICS; HUMAN; LAW SUIT; MEMORY; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; ORIENTATION; CLASSIFICATION; CRIMINAL LAW; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL FUNCTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CRIMINAL LAW; DEMENTIA; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MENTAL COMPETENCY; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL PROCESSES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOUTH CAROLINA; HUMANS;

EID: 0036019105     PISSN: 10936793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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