Conducting insanity evaluations / Richard Rogers, Daniel W. Shuman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rogers, Richard, 1950-

Contributor:

Shuman, Daniel W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental illness--Diagnosis--United States.

Mental illness.

Forensic psychiatry.

Insanity Defense.

Mental illness--Diagnosis.

United States.

Expert Testimony--methods.

Forensic Psychiatry--methods.

Interview, Psychological--methods.

Medical Subjects:

Insanity Defense.

United States.

Expert Testimony--methods.

Forensic Psychiatry--methods.

Interview, Psychological--methods.

Physical Description:

xii, 371 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Guilford Press, 2000.

Summary:

Insanity evaluations represent the most challenging and complex evaluations in forensic psychology and psychiatry. Mental health and legal professionals involved in insanity cases need a solid foundation in current concepts, legal standards, and clinical methods. This need is heightened by the substantial legal and clinical changes that have occurred in the field during the past decade. This text from two leading authorities brings forensic professionals up to date on key issues surrounding insanity evaluations. It delineates explicit, research-based guidelines for interview-based assessments, psychological testing and other specialized procedures, and forensic reports and testimony. The volume explores how insanity is conceptualized under the law and differentiated from other standards of criminal responsibility. A range of clinical measures and techniques are examined, with special attention to such relevant phenomena as malingering and amnesia. Included in the appendices are invaluable databases on 413 defendants evaluated for criminal responsibility and 6,479 defendants found not guilty by reason of insanity. For clinicians, the volume provides the knowledge and skills needed to conduct ethical, legally defensible insanity evaluations and to present their findings effectively. Legal professionals will gain a basis for understanding the logic and clinical methods used by mental health experts and for evaluating the quality of their assessments.

Contents:

Daubert and the Parameters of Insanity Evaluations 3

Standards of Criminal Responsibility 9

Public Misperceptions of the Insanity Defense 19

Potential Jurors for Insanity Trials 21

Postacquittal Management of Persons Found Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity 22

Part I. Clinical and Legal Issues

2. The Clinician's Role in Insanity Evaluations 29

Agency and Professional Role 29

Attitudes and Motivations of the Forensic Expert 32

Extraneous Defendant and Victim Characteristics 35

Ethical Issues 40

Whole Truth versus Partial Truth 44

Certainty of Clinical Opinions 45

The Ultimate Opinion Controversy 46

3. The Expert-Attorney Relationship 49

Mutual Distrust and Derogation 51

Epistemological Differences 52

Competing Goals and Objectives 55

Nature of the Contractual Arrangement 58

Domains of Professional Responsibility 58

Forensic Identification 60

4. Addressing the Legal Standards 64

M'Naghten Standard 66

M'Naghten-Irresistible Impulse Standard 71

ALI Standard 74

IDRA Standard 81

Guilty But Mentally Ill Standard 82

Other Standards 86

Do Different Standards Make a Difference? 87

5. Malingering and Deception 90

Explanatory Models of Malingering 91

Feigned Psychopathology 93

Feigned Cognitive and Neuropsychological Assessment 104

6. Amnesia and Dissociation 121

Dissociative versus Organic Amnesia 123

Specific Organic Syndromes 128

Malingered Amnesia 131

Dissociative Disorders and Criminal Responsibility 135

Automatism and Criminal Responsibility 141

Memory Loss and Distortion 143

Part II. Clinical Methods

7. Clinical Interviews 151

Goals 153

Diagnostic Issues 166

Content Issues 178

Corroborative Clinical Interviews 180

8. Psychological Testing 183

Projective Methods 186

Multiscale Inventories 194

Intellectual and Neuropsychological Testing 207

9. Structured Approaches to Insanity Evaluations 217

Schedule of Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia 217

Mental State at the Time of the Offense Screening Evaluation 224

Rogers Criminal Responsibility Assessment Scales 230

10. Laboratory and Specialized Assessment Techniques: Issues and Methods 243

Specialized Methods with Sex Offenders 244

Polygraph Techniques 249

Integrity Testing 251

Forensic Hypnosis 252

Drug-Assisted Interviews 254

Measures of Alcohol and Drug Abuse 258

The EEG and Diagnostic Imaging 268

11. Clinical Synthesis 278

Decision-Making Models 279

Components of Forensic Decision Making 283

Application of Statistical Models 287

Contradictory and Discrepant Findings 289

"No Opinion" Conclusions 293

12. Communication of Findings 296

Disclosure of the Expert's Findings 296

Reports versus No Written Reports 298

Forensic Reports 299

Pretrial Strategic Conferences 306

Issues Related to Insanity Trials 309

Multiple Forensic Roles 314

Rebuttal Experts 315.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-357) and indexes.

ISBN:

1572305215

OCLC:

42683386