The role of demographic, criminal, and psychiatric variables in examiners’ predictions of restorability to competency to stand trial

International Journal of Forensic Mental Health

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 145-155

  Hubbard, Karen L ^a   Zapf, Patricia A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952083195     PISSN: 14999013     EISSN: 19329903     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14999013.2003.10471186     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Alabama Rules of Criminal Procedure, Rule 11.3 (c)(2)(iv) (1991)
2. Ashford, J. B. (1987). Assessing treatability in drug offenders. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 6, 139-148.
3. Carbonell, J. L., Heilbrun, K., & Friedman, F. L. (1992). Predicting who will regain trial competency: Initial promise unfulfilled. Forensic Reports, 5, 67-76.
4. Cuneo, D. J., & Brelje, T. B. (1984). Predicting probability of attaining fitness to stand trial. Psychological Reports, 55, 35-39.
5. Dusky v. United States, 362 U.S. 402 (1960).
6. Golding, S. L. (1992). Studies of incompetent defendants: Research and social policy implications. Forensic Reports, 5, 77-83.
7. Hart, S. D., & Hare, R. D. (1992). Predicting fitness to stand trial: The relative power of demographic, criminal, and clinical variables. Forensic Reports, 5, 53-65.
8. Hosmer, D. W., & Lemeshow, S. (1989) Applied logistic regression. New York: Wiley.
9. Jackson v. Indiana, 406 U.S. 715 (1972).
10. Lamb, H.R. (1987). Incompetency to stand trial: Appropriateness and outcome. Archives of General Psychiatry, 44, 754-758.
11. Meehl, P. E., & Rosen, A. (1955). Antecedent probability and the efficiency of psychometric signs, patterns, and cutting scores. Psychological Bulletin, 52, 194-216.
12. Melton, G. B., Petrila, J., Poythress, N. G., & Slobogin, C. (1997). Competency to stand trial, Psychological evaluations for the courts: A handbook for mental health professional and lawyers (2nd ed., pp. 119-155). New York: Guilford.
13. Mowbray, C. T. (1979). A study of patients treated as incompetent to stand trial. Social Psychiatry, 14, 31-39.
14. Nicholson, R. A., & Johnson, W. G. (1991). Prediction of competency to stand trial: Contribution of demographics, type of offense, clinical characteristics, and psycholegal ability. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 14, 287-297.
15. Nicholson, R. A., & McNulty, J. L. (1992). Outcome of hospitalization for defendants found incompetent to stand trial. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 10, 371-383.
16. Reich, J., & Wells, J. (1985). Psychiatric Diagnosis and Competency to Stand Trial. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 26, 421-432.
17. Roesch, R., & Golding, S. L. (1980). Competency to stand trial. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois.
18. Roesch, R., Zapf, P. A., Golding, S. L., & Skeem, J. L. (1999). Defining and assessing competency to stand trial. In A. K. Hess & I. B. Weiner (Eds.), The handbook of forensic psychology (2nd ed., pp. 327-350). New York: Wiley.
19. Rogers, R., Gillis, J. R., Dickens, S. E., & Webster, C. D. (1988). Treatment recommendations for mentally disordered offenders: More than roulette? Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 6, 487-495.
20. Rogers, R., Gillis, J. R., McMain, S., & Dickens, S. E. (1988). Fitness evaluations: A retrospective study of clinical, criminal, and sociodemographic characteristics. Canadian Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 20, 192-200.
21. Siegel, A.M., & Elwork, A. (1990). Treating incompetence to stand trial. Law and Human Behavior, 14, 57-65.
22. Zapf, P.A., Hubbard, K. L., Cooper, V. A., Wheeles, M. C., & Ronan, K. A., (in press). Have the courts abdicated their responsibility for determination of competency to stand trial to clinicians? Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice.