What court case established the modern day competency to stand trial standard?

- Frye v.US (1923)

- Dusky v. US (1960)

- Jenkins v. US (1962)

- Washington v. US (1983)

Which of the following is not a included in the competency to stand trial definition?

- has sufficient present ability to consult with his lawyer with a reasonable degree of rational understanding

- Oriented to time and place with some recollection of events

- Has a rational and factual understanding of the proceedings against him

- All are included in the definition

When a defendants is found in incompetent to stand trial, what are the next steps in the legislative procedure?

- he is indefinitely committed to a state hospital until he can be restored to competency

- The criminal charges are immediately dropped

- He is committed to a state hospital for a reasonable amount of time what would be necessary to refine competency

- The trial continues without delay

All of the following are problems with evaluating an individual with intellectual disabilities for competency to stand trial except:

- there are no reliable an valid intelligence test for his population

- Evaluators are not qualified to administer test

- Evaluators have minimal experience working with this population

- Professionals with this specific expertise have minimal or no experience with forensic issue

The M’Naghten standard of insanity includes all of the following except

- defect of reason

- Inability to understand the nature of quality of the act

- Understanding the nature of the act but not that the act is wrong

- All of the above are included

Of the insanity please raised, about how many are effectively used as a defence?

- 1%

- 25%

- 50%

- 75%

What types of cases are likely to argue insanity?

- highly idiosyncratic and paranoid religious, political, and identity system

- Extremely bizarre conduct

- Axis I diagnosis with a Conor is disorder diagnosis

- All of the above

Men’s tea is defined as

- criminal intent

- Wrongful deed

- Guilt

- None of the above

Actually reus is defined as

- criminal intent

- Wrongful deed

- Guilt

- None of the above

Which individual had men’s rea?

- the store clerk held at gun to tie up other employees and open a safe for a robber

- A medical patient delirious with fever that hits a nurse

- The ceo that lies on his taxes to save money

- All of the above

Specific intent refers to

- negligent and reckless

- Purposeful and reckless

- Knowingly and negligent

- Purposeful and knowingly

General intent is explained as

- and individual should have been conscious of his actions and the predictable consequences

- An individual wanted to achieve some additional result beyond the predictable consequences

- Neither

- Both

A judgement that someone is at risk for being violent in the future and therefore should not be released is based on what level of certainty?

- the clinician must be 100% certain that the person will be violent

- The clinician must be 50% sure that the person will be violent

- The clinical must be certain that the person poses a significant risk of acting violent in certain circumstances

- None of the above

The violence risk appraisal guide (VRAG) is an actuarial assessment used to

- identify violent recidivism among adult male offenders and forensic patients

- Identify sexual and violent recidivism among adult male sec offenders

- Identify general and violent recidivism among adult offenders

- Identify imminent violence among adult psychiatric inpatient

Structured professional judgment aims to

- use the relevance of treatment, risk management, the Irish of case formulation

- Attain empirical evidence and mad decisions within a structured context

- Retain the strengths of the unstructured clinicL and actuarial approach

- All of the above

Testimony of risk assessment can be based on what?

- clinical interviews

- Actuarial instruments

- Clinical interview later and actuarial assessment

- All of the above

Which case established a therapis’s duty to protect?

- in the matter of George l (1995)

- Tarasoff v. Regents of the university of California (1976)

- Addington v. Texas (1979)

- In the matter of state v. Remember said (2009)

Law enforcement psychologists participate in

- evaluation and assessment activities

- Organisation consulting and tray

- Operational and investigation support

- All of the above

What is the definition of competency damages?

- damages intended to compensate the defendant

- damages intended to punish the defendant

- Damages intended to ruin the legal system and make it unfair for big businesses

- Damage that should be outlawed

Parallel constraint refers to satisfying the following competing goals except

- achieving appropriate compensation

- Effecting deterrence

- Exacting appropriate verdicts

- Expressing systemic values

All of the following influence jury decisions except

- nature of the plaintiff’s conduct

- The plaintiff’s and defends ease or ethnicity

- Defendants wealth

- Individual differences of jurors

Which of the following is not true juror questioning?

- promotes understanding of the facts and issues

- Clearly helps get the truth

- Does not alert the trail counsel that issues require more extensive development

- Does not interfere with attorney trail strategies

Which of the toy is a clear cut demographic factors associated with increased risk of violence?

- female

- 40+ years of age

- Being minority

- Being unemployed

If a person confesses to a crime during a competency to stand trial evaluation, his confession can be used again during the guilty phase of his criminal trial

- true

- False

An individual can be found guilty if he has only men’s tea or actual reus

- true

- False

Delusional beliefs alone can be render an individual not guilty by reason of insanity

- true

- False

Punitive damages are infrequently sought and infrequently awarded but ate extremely large

- true

- False

Which of the following provides the best evidence for why the terms of child molester and pedophile are not synonymous

- a pedipalps May have never acted on his/her desire

- A molester may have touched a child that was fourteen years old

- Assessors can’t agree on whether a given person is a pedophile or a molester

- None of the above are appropriate

Which of the following is an example of an actuarial assessment measure used for violence predictable

- MMPI-2(Minnesota multiphase personality inventory -2)

- HCR-20(historical clinical risk management)

- M-FAST(miller forensic assessment of symptoms test)

- TOMM (test of memory malinger)

Which of the following is true regards risk assessment?

- mental health professionals are always no better than chance at predicting violence risk

- Sometimes statistics regarding the true and false positivities involved in risk assessment do not take into account the crime committed but not discovered

- Parole boards always take into consideration the recommendation of mental health professionals regarding risk of recidivism

- All of the above

A forensic is usually not the person you are evaluating. Which of the following be the actual client?

- the attorney

- The court

- The prosecutor office

- All of the above

The narrow definition of forensic psychology includes the idea that psychologists provide professionals expertise to the judicial system

- true

- False

The “base-rate problem” refers to ...

- the large number of people with potentially dangerous mental health problems

- The shortage of trained professionals to thoroughly evaluate people with serious mental health problems

- The shortage or properly equipped facilities to treat people with serious mental health problems

- The relative difficulty of making predictions of infrequent or rare events

Which of the following is not one of hart’s risk factors for violence

- Nature and severity

- Like good

- Frequency

- Psychopath