Development and preliminary validation of the mosley forensic competency scale

Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 41-48

  Mosley, Dan ^a   Thyer, Bruce A ^b,c,d   Larrison, Christopher ^b  

^a Fulton State Hospital   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Court decisions; Forensic evaluations; Mosley Forensic Competency Scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009628916     PISSN: 10911359     EISSN: 15403556     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J137v04n01_03     Document Type: Article

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