Which term is synonymous with sanity evaluation?
A. competency assessment
B. criminal responsibility evaluation
C. risk assessment
D. forensic amenability evaluation
B. criminal responsibility evaluation
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The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry developed guidelines for working with adolescents in juvenile justice settings. They stated that minimal standards of care should include all EXCEPT which of the following:
A) Screening all youths entering a detention or correctional facility for suicide risk factors B) Continued monitoring of juveniles identified as potential suicide risks throughout their sentence C) Providing thorough mental health assessments by qualified mental health clinicians for all youth at risk D) A and C Only E) All of the above
Which of the following is not a means of attempting to demonstrate that an instrument is reliable?
A. split half B. multiple forms C. indirect dimensions approach D. test-retest
At an arraignment, a defendant may enter any one of the following pleas except
A) not guilty by reason of insanity. B) nolo contendere. C) nolle prosequi. D) guilty. E) not guilty.
Your police agency was just rocked by a scandal involving the mishandling of records and property. In many cases, there was inadequate recordkeeping based on a records management system that went into service in 1995
There were no criminal charges involved, but a number of higher profile criminal cases were dismissed by the district attorney due to lost, misfiled, and erroneously destroyed evidence and reports. The chief assigns you to create a plan to ensure the same mistakes can't be made again. What key points would you want to address?