Commentary: Facts and values in competency assessment

Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 352-353

  Buchanan, Alec ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COURT; CRIMINOLOGY; EVALUATION; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; LEGAL COMPETENCE; MORALITY; NOTE; OFFENDER; PRISON; PROFESSIONALISM; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHOLOGIST; PUNISHMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD;

HUMANS; JURISPRUDENCE; MENTAL COMPETENCY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 54949090369     PISSN: 10936793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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