UMMS Affiliation
Department of Psychiatry
Publication Date
2013-5
Document Type
Presentation
Disciplines
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms | Clinical Psychology | Law and Psychology | Mental and Social Health | Psychiatry | Psychiatry and Psychology | Psychological Phenomena and Processes | Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance
Abstract
Discusses the legal precedent and research basis of evaluating a defendant's mental competency to stand trial, the variables that contribute to non-restorable incompetence to stand trial, and the differences between patients who are restorable to competency versus those who are not restorable to competency.
Keywords
mental compentency, competency to stand trial, competency restoration
Source
Presented at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, May 2013.
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Psychiatry Publications and Presentations
Repository Citation
Dinsmore, Andrea L., "Assessment of Competence Restoration: Determining the Threshold" (2013). Psychiatry Publications and Presentations. 714.
https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/psych_pp/714
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Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms Commons, Clinical Psychology Commons, Law and Psychology Commons, Mental and Social Health Commons, Psychiatry Commons, Psychological Phenomena and Processes Commons, Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance Commons
