Pub Date : 2016-05-10DOI: 10.1080/15228932.2016.1177285
R. Brewer, G. Davies, N. Blackwood
ABSTRACT Purpose: This study aims to investigate the cognitive deficits associated with a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and their impact upon the skills necessary for fitness to plead (FTP) to a criminal charge at trial.Methodology: A between-groups study compared the performance of a group of adult participants with a diagnosis of ASD (N = 15) with a matched control group of adults with no diagnosis of ASD (N = 15) on an ecologically valid 15-min filmed vignette of typical Crown Court proceedings, during which they answered questions based upon cognitive skills required for FTP. The cognitive abilities of the participants were also assessed.Findings: Participants in the ASD group scored significantly lower than the control group on the measure of FTP. Specifically, the ASD group scored lower on questions relating to the procedures and processes of the courtroom.Research Implications: Future research using a larger ASD sample and comparisons to a nonforensic ASD sample is recommended to confirm and extend these findings, and further the development of appropriate supporting measures.Practical Implications: The current finding that individuals with ASD have a poorer understanding of the courtroom process than individuals without ASD suggests the need to support and implement special measures with this client group.Originality: This article introduces a standardized measure of FTP for use with individuals with ASD, which has not previously been available.
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Pub Date : 2016-05-10DOI: 10.1080/15228932.2016.1172422
Agnès Alonzo-Proulx, M. Cyr
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to explore the predictive value of child sexual abuse characteristics (relationship between the child and the suspect, reported coercion, type and frequency of abuse) as well as the disclosure context (disclosure made on purpose or accidentally, maternal belief, and protective actions) on the number of central forensically relevant (CFR) details elicited during the investigative interview of alleged child victims. The effects of the child’s age and use of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Investigative Protocol were controlled for, in order to focus on the aspects of the sexual abuse and disclosure variables. Of the 116 investigative interviews conducted with children aged from 4 to 14 years old, half followed the NICHD Protocol; the other half were conducted by the same 18 interviewers prior to their training in the NICHD protocol. Police files and interview transcripts were analyzed to collect information about the child sexual abuse characteristics, the disclosure context, and the number of CFR details. As expected, the child’s age and use of the NICHD Protocol were the two strongest predictors of the number of CFR details. Coercion (physical and verbal) as well as maternal protection following the disclosure also increased the number of CFR details. Explanations of these results and implications for further research are discussed.
{"title":"Factors Predicting Central Details in Alleged Child Sexual Abuse Victims’ Disclosure","authors":"Agnès Alonzo-Proulx, M. Cyr","doi":"10.1080/15228932.2016.1172422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15228932.2016.1172422","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to explore the predictive value of child sexual abuse characteristics (relationship between the child and the suspect, reported coercion, type and frequency of abuse) as well as the disclosure context (disclosure made on purpose or accidentally, maternal belief, and protective actions) on the number of central forensically relevant (CFR) details elicited during the investigative interview of alleged child victims. The effects of the child’s age and use of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Investigative Protocol were controlled for, in order to focus on the aspects of the sexual abuse and disclosure variables. Of the 116 investigative interviews conducted with children aged from 4 to 14 years old, half followed the NICHD Protocol; the other half were conducted by the same 18 interviewers prior to their training in the NICHD protocol. Police files and interview transcripts were analyzed to collect information about the child sexual abuse characteristics, the disclosure context, and the number of CFR details. As expected, the child’s age and use of the NICHD Protocol were the two strongest predictors of the number of CFR details. Coercion (physical and verbal) as well as maternal protection following the disclosure also increased the number of CFR details. Explanations of these results and implications for further research are discussed.","PeriodicalId":89973,"journal":{"name":"Journal of forensic psychology practice","volume":"16 1","pages":"129 - 150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15228932.2016.1172422","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59841029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-05-10DOI: 10.1080/15228932.2016.1177281
J. Ogloff, R. Campbell, S. Shepherd
ABSTRACT The relationship between psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder (APD) was explored in a sample of Australian mentally disordered offenders. Two Hare adult psychopathy measures, the Psychopathy Checklist–Revised (PCL-R) and the Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version (PCL: SV) were employed and a diagnosis of APD was measured for 136 participants in a secure forensic psychiatric inpatient facility. Results revealed clear distinctions between measurements of psychopathy and APD. Over 65% of patients high in psychopathic traits received a diagnosis of APD while only 5.5% of patients with APD were high in psychopathic traits, denoting an asymmetric relationship. Implications for the assessment and treatment of mentally disordered offenders with psychopathic traits are discussed.
{"title":"Disentangling Psychopathy from Antisocial Personality Disorder: An Australian Analysis","authors":"J. Ogloff, R. Campbell, S. Shepherd","doi":"10.1080/15228932.2016.1177281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15228932.2016.1177281","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The relationship between psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder (APD) was explored in a sample of Australian mentally disordered offenders. Two Hare adult psychopathy measures, the Psychopathy Checklist–Revised (PCL-R) and the Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version (PCL: SV) were employed and a diagnosis of APD was measured for 136 participants in a secure forensic psychiatric inpatient facility. Results revealed clear distinctions between measurements of psychopathy and APD. Over 65% of patients high in psychopathic traits received a diagnosis of APD while only 5.5% of patients with APD were high in psychopathic traits, denoting an asymmetric relationship. Implications for the assessment and treatment of mentally disordered offenders with psychopathic traits are discussed.","PeriodicalId":89973,"journal":{"name":"Journal of forensic psychology practice","volume":"16 1","pages":"198 - 215"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15228932.2016.1177281","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59841358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-05-10DOI: 10.1080/15228932.2016.1172423
J. Willemsen, Valerie Seys, Ellen Gunst, M. Desmet
ABSTRACT Sex offenders demonstrate heightened levels of negative emotions, traumatic experiences, mental health issues, and emotion disregulation. This study presents a qualitative analysis of interviews with sex offenders concerning helpful experiences in experiential group psychotherapy. Experiential group psychotherapy aims to increase emotional awareness, emotional expression, and reflection on emotions. The data were thematically coded according to Yalom’s therapeutic factors for group psychotherapy. The results indicate that Cohesion is reported to be most helpful: when clients trust their peers and feel respected by therapists, emotional engagement in treatment is achieved. Clients report being more capable of focusing on and tolerating their own emotions, which also influences the way they relate to other people (Interpersonal Learning). Experiences related to Universality, Instillation of Hope, Altruism, and Existential Learning were also mentioned as helpful in the treatment.
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Pub Date : 2016-03-14DOI: 10.1080/15228932.2016.1142777
Cassandra Valerio, J. V. Becker
ABSTRACT While jail-based restoration to competency (RTC) programs are becoming more common, research on these programs and defendants who complete them is limited. The present study investigated characteristics of defendants who have completed a jail-based RTC program more than once to determine what factors differentiate them from those who completed the program only once. This study also investigated whether the use of psychological tests in competency to stand trial (CST) evaluations reduced the number of competency cases that are contested. Several predictors of RTC program repetitions were identified. However, no differences in number of contested cases were found in CST evaluations that used assessment instruments compared to evaluations where no assessment was used.
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Pub Date : 2016-03-14DOI: 10.1080/15228932.2016.1139371
A. Kavanaugh
ABSTRACT Juries and judges are persuaded by confession evidence. Unfortunately, some of these confessions are false and result in the conviction of an innocent person. Most false confession cases involve police interrogations. On the other hand, a spontaneous or voluntary false confession involves a person confessing to a crime he or she did not commit, absent police interrogation. This case is one in which Mr. Johnson, a college graduate, confessed to a serious crime he did not commit. Although his confession was inconsistent with the facts of the crime, the police arrested Mr. Johnson. The following case study describes the forensic evaluation conducted in Mr. Johnson’s case, the outcome of his case, and the impact of voluntary false confessions.
{"title":"A College Graduate Confesses to a Murder He Did Not Commit: A Case of a Voluntary False Confession","authors":"A. Kavanaugh","doi":"10.1080/15228932.2016.1139371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15228932.2016.1139371","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Juries and judges are persuaded by confession evidence. Unfortunately, some of these confessions are false and result in the conviction of an innocent person. Most false confession cases involve police interrogations. On the other hand, a spontaneous or voluntary false confession involves a person confessing to a crime he or she did not commit, absent police interrogation. This case is one in which Mr. Johnson, a college graduate, confessed to a serious crime he did not commit. Although his confession was inconsistent with the facts of the crime, the police arrested Mr. Johnson. The following case study describes the forensic evaluation conducted in Mr. Johnson’s case, the outcome of his case, and the impact of voluntary false confessions.","PeriodicalId":89973,"journal":{"name":"Journal of forensic psychology practice","volume":"16 1","pages":"105 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15228932.2016.1139371","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59840786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-03-14DOI: 10.1080/15228932.2016.1154713
E. Gottfried, Allison M. Schenk, M. Vitacco
ABSTRACT Evaluating for feigning, the intentional production or misrepresentation of psychological symptoms or cognitive impairments, is an essential component of every forensic evaluation (Rogers, Jackson, Salekin, & Neumann, 2003). One strategy of feigning that has largely been overlooked in the field of forensic psychology and psychiatry is retrospectively feigning symptoms in the context of criminal responsibility evaluations. Specifically, this involves a defendant who is not currently feigning symptoms, but is reporting experiencing a number of symptoms of mental illness at the time of the crime. Although there are numerous measures designed to detect current feigned psychological symptoms or cognitive impairments, little research has been devoted to the proper evaluation of retrospective feigning. Because this concept has been overlooked and underresearched, this paper offers suggestions and best-practice guidelines for evaluating retrospective feigning in the context of criminal responsibility evaluations.
{"title":"Retrospectively Assessing for Feigning in Criminal Responsibility Evaluations: Recommendations for Clinical Practice","authors":"E. Gottfried, Allison M. Schenk, M. Vitacco","doi":"10.1080/15228932.2016.1154713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15228932.2016.1154713","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Evaluating for feigning, the intentional production or misrepresentation of psychological symptoms or cognitive impairments, is an essential component of every forensic evaluation (Rogers, Jackson, Salekin, & Neumann, 2003). One strategy of feigning that has largely been overlooked in the field of forensic psychology and psychiatry is retrospectively feigning symptoms in the context of criminal responsibility evaluations. Specifically, this involves a defendant who is not currently feigning symptoms, but is reporting experiencing a number of symptoms of mental illness at the time of the crime. Although there are numerous measures designed to detect current feigned psychological symptoms or cognitive impairments, little research has been devoted to the proper evaluation of retrospective feigning. Because this concept has been overlooked and underresearched, this paper offers suggestions and best-practice guidelines for evaluating retrospective feigning in the context of criminal responsibility evaluations.","PeriodicalId":89973,"journal":{"name":"Journal of forensic psychology practice","volume":"16 1","pages":"118 - 128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15228932.2016.1154713","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59840971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-03-14DOI: 10.1080/15228932.2016.1148452
M. Acklin, Kristen Fuger
ABSTRACT The current study evaluated field reliability of forensic judgments in a state circuit court setting. Utilizing panels of three independently appointed examiners, Hawaii’s system for evaluating mentally ill defendants charged with felonies provides a naturalistic laboratory for investigating decision-making processes in examiners and judges. The study focused on competency to stand trial (CST), criminal responsibility (NGRI), and postacquittal conditional release (CR) using a methodology adopted from clinical medicine and natural sciences. The entire adjudicative process from examination to judicial determination is examined as a forensic classification model. Examiner agreement and judicial consensus for 450 forensic reports were examined to assess performance in a non–crossed-data measurement design. Reliability of psycholegal constructs (CST, NGRI, postacquittal CR) was assessed using a novel reliability estimator (Krippendorff’s alpha: KALPHA). This is the first study in the forensic mental health literature to examine interrater agreement for postacquittal conditional release decision making. Findings revealed adequate performance for CST, poor performance for CR, and marginal performance for NGRI decisions. Judges demonstrated independence in the presence of panel disagreements. Across the board, examiners demonstrated high levels of inconsistency in judgments. Factors associated with poor reliability, including task complexity, are discussed. The findings raise concerns about the overall quality of psycholegal decision making in criminal proceedings, especially in NGRI and CR determinations.
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Pub Date : 2016-03-14DOI: 10.1080/15228932.2016.1142782
B. Marcopulos, Laysa Hedjar, B. Arredondo
ABSTRACT Dissociative amnesia is a rare and perplexing psychiatric disorder with purported “functional” or neurological origins—or is it simply malingering? We report a Jane Doe who was admitted to a psychiatric hospital and treated for dissociative amnesia or fugue with group therapies and psychotropic medication for six months. She was referred for neuropsychological assessment to evaluate memory loss for her past and her identity. The Test of Memory Malingering and the Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology suggested feigned memory deficits. The hospital eventually learned Jane Doe’s identity. She was wanted for a crime in another state, but also had a psychiatric history with several hospitalizations. When confronted, she admitted her deception. This case illustrates the importance of using formal testing and consulting the scientific literature on memory for discerning true versus feigned memory deficits. This case also points out that mentally ill defendants can malinger other disorders. We review the pertinent literature on the cognitive neuroscience of autobiographical memory, and its ability to inform forensic mental health evaluations.
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Pub Date : 2016-01-01Epub Date: 2016-07-18DOI: 10.1080/15228932.2016.1192334
Karl Roberts, Marina Tolou-Shams, Kaila Madera
This practice update considers adolescent stalking. Adolescent stalking is an area of research that deserves further study given findings from the adult stalking literature that suggest significant public health and legal consequences associated with these behaviors. However, very little is known about this phenomenon, its potential differentiation from adolescent dating violence and/or bullying and directions to take for future research. A comprehensive review across 5 scientific databases yielded a total of 9 peer-reviewed manuscripts incorporating varying sample sizes and adolescent populations. A synthesis of existing research suggests that adolescent stalking exists at levels at least as high as that documented among adults but appears to have some notable differences (e.g., behavioral patterns, risk factors) from stalking behaviors among adults. To date, there exists no published representative population-based study of adolescent stalking behaviors and its health and legal consequences. Future research is needed to determine accurate prevalence statistics and to differentiate characteristics and public health impact of adolescent stalking from dating violence and/or bullying.
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