Assessing adolescent defendants' adjudicative competence: Interrater reliability and factor structure of the fitness interview test-revised

Criminal Justice and Behavior

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 467-487

  Viljoen, Jodi L ^a   Vincent, Gina M ^b   Roesch, Ronald ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adjudicative competence; Adolescents; Competency to stand trial; Fitness to stand trial; Juvenile offenders

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745625643     PISSN: 00938548     EISSN: 15523594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093854806287317     Document Type: Review

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