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

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 723-742

  Viljoen, Jodi L ^a   Roesch, Ronald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adjudication; Adolescence; Competence; Interrogation; Juvenile justice; Miranda rights

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BRIEF PSYCHIATRIC RATING SCALE; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; COMPETENCE; FEMALE; FITNESS INTERVIEW TEST; GRISSO INSTRUMENTS FOR ASSESSING UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF MIRANDA RIGHTS; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; INTELLECT; JUSTICE; LAWYER; LEGAL ASPECT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PERFORMANCE; RATING SCALE; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WOODCOCK JOHNSON III COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT BATTERY; CHILD; COGNITION; CRIME; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; COGNITION; CRIME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAWYERS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE;

EID: 33644874196     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10979-005-7978-y     Document Type: Article

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