Predictor variables in competency to stand trial decisions

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 423-436

  Cooper, Virginia G ^b   Zapf, Patricia A ^a  

^a JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bias; Competence to stand trial; Decision making; Evaluation of competency; Fitness to stand trial; Predictors of competency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPETENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; COURT; CRIMINOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FITNESS; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MENTAL CAPACITY; META ANALYSIS; OFFENDER; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTION; PRODUCTIVITY; SOCIAL ASPECT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALABAMA; CRIME; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMANS; JUDICIAL ROLE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENTAL COMPETENCY; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0043210658     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024089117535     Document Type: Conference Paper

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