Exam 5: Consulting With Criminal Courts

Rehabilitation is the dominant concern in determinate sentencing.

Describe what is involved in a psychosexual assessment. Include the reasons why clinicians are discouraged from using a typology to label a sex offender in a written report.

Why is guilty but mentally ill a controversial verdict? What does this verdict often mean for defendants?

Define malingering.

The R-CRAS is a forensic instrument used for assessing ______.

Research suggests that insanity cases are often decided on ______ grounds.

What is the most frequent outcome for those found NGRI?

In Godinez v. Moran (1993), the Supreme Court ruled that the Dusky standards also apply to ______.

Most clinicians regard the evaluation of criminal responsibility as a complex issue.

Imagine you are a psychologist who is conducting a psychosexual assessment on a convicted sex offender. Which of the following should you refrain from including in your report to the court?

The two-pronged Dusky standard specifies that a defendant must not only understand what is happening but also be ______.

In which year was the death penalty reinstituted in the United States?

Which individual would be eligible for the death penalty?

Reports of competency evaluations should include all of the following EXCEPT ______.

Changes in the federal and state laws have made it more difficult for defendants pleading not guilty by reason of insanity to win acquittal.

Which of the following is a commonality among all insanity standards?

What is the primary concern with the GBMI verdict?

Which of the following is least likely to be considered a mitigating factor at the sentencing stage in a death penalty case?

In United States v. Comstock, 2010, the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government could not hold violent sexual offenders beyond their prison sentence if they were mentally ill.

Restoration to competency for an individual found incompetent to stand trial should focus not only on decisional capacities but also on ______.