“Disabling” forensic detention involves challenging the self-evidence of the meaning of disability in forensic mental health law, and in turn illuminating the significance of this meaning to the ...possibility and permissibility of forensic detention and other interventions in the bodies of people designated with cognitive impairments and psychosocial disabilities (“people designated as disabled”). I apply this approach to an examination of a case study of one individual subjected to forensic detention: an Indigenous Australian woman with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Roseanne Fulton. By examining Fulton’s forensic detention, in the context of her earlier life circumstances and her subsequent journey through various “alternatives” to this forensic detention I show the interrelationships of forensic detention with a range of legal options for punishing, regulating and intervening in designated as disabled bodies and situate these interrelationships in a broader range of issues of violence, institutional failure, social disadvantage, settler colonialism, and ableism. My central argument is that the ongoing subjection of Fulton to a range of forms of control across her life suggest that the possibility of forensic detention and other forms of punishment of people designated as disabled is not attached to a particular material architectural space or a particular court order, but instead attaches to these individuals’ bodies via medico-legal designations as disabled and travels with these individuals through time and space. I propose that more directly it is the disabled body that is the space of punishment and the disabled body makes material architectural spaces punitive. A “reform”, indeed even an “abolition”, approach focused on material architectural spaces of disabled punishment will not interrupt the ongoing processes of control of criminalized people designated as disabled if it does not also acknowledge and challenge the temporal and carnal logics underpinning the carcerality of the disabled body itself.
Deception detection has ubiquitously focussed upon detecting deceit in the individual, whether in national security, forensic or business-related environments. In contrast an understanding of how to ...identify deception committed by multiple individuals or groups challenging strategic interests has been neglected. In this article - to enhance understanding of practitioners working across security, intelligence and forensic areas - a process of psychological synthesis is advocated. Psychological synthesis incorporates a multitude of approaches reflecting contextual requirements towards deception detection across verbal/linguistic behavior, non-verbal behavior, online interactions and intelligence analysis approaches. These combined with in-depth understanding of individuals’ cultures, personality and manner of presentation can be understood in challenging environments. Juxtaposed to these factors psychological synthesis considers how intelligence, surveillance and evidence may be used in detecting deception and identifying links between individuals engaging in deception and related activities. An illustration of how such an approach may work is provided through a scenario of a terrorist incident and how a tailored deception detection approach may seek to counter such a threat.
Este estudio se propone plantear recomendaciones que puedan servir de insumo inicial para la realización de una guía o procedimiento de valoración psicológica o psiquiátrica forense en víctimas de ...violencia contra la pareja (vcp), que cumpla las exigencias de la normatividad nacional e internacional, ya que no se ha publicado ninguna guía o procedimiento forense en este sentido por parte del Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal y Ciencias Forenses en Colombia. La VCP es una realidad humana y un problema de salud pública. Los datos de la investigación científica demuestran que la VCP es un fenómeno complejo, en su mayoría bidireccional, heterogéneo, multicausal e independiente del género 1. Se realiza un estudio descriptivo, de características retrospectivas, en que se revisa la normatividad existente, los enfoques explicativos actuales y la atención forense en Colombia, complementada con la revisión de las guías publicadas en la región para las valoraciones psicológicas o psiquiátricas forenses en los últimos diez años. En las guías revisadas se recomienda que mediante la entrevista clínico-forense y la administración de instrumentos de evaluación adecuados se constate la existencia de violencia, se estime si el testimonio ofrecido es congruente con la información de la literatura sobre violencia psicológica y se valore las repercusiones psicológicas o psiquiátricas en la víctima para así determinar el nexo causal. Valorar el impacto de la victimización en vcp permite apoyar la investigación judicial y contribuir a mejorar la calidad de vida de las víctimas y a restaurar el estado previo a la vivencia traumática
This study surveyed 213 experienced child custody evaluators utilizing the same questionnaire in the Ackerman & Ackerman 1997 and Keilin & Bloom 1986 studies. Demographic information, evaluation ...practices, custody decision‐making, and recommendations were surveyed. Comparisons were made across all three studies to identify the similarities and differences in child custody evaluation practices over the past 20 years. This study added questions about risk management and ethical issues, and current practices in placement/access schedules. The reader is advised that not engaging in the practices performed by a majority of psychologists could result in a difficult testimony experience.
"Introduction: This article focuses on the social work contribution to service improvement by reflecting on the establishment of the first youth forensic forum in Aotearoa New Zealand, held in ...October 2018.
Approach: An exploration of the Aotearoa New Zealand context that led to the establishment of the first youth forensic workforce forum is presented. Issues included disjointed mental health care for young offenders who move between secure residences, concerns about over-assessment of vulnerable young people, silo-ed specialist youth forensic knowledge, and a disconnected workforce. Led by a social worker, youth forensic workforce issues were addressed through the inaugural national youth forensic forum in 2018. The aim of the forum was to bring a disparate workforce together in order to improve mental health assessment experiences for young people within youth justice residences. This initiative was grounded in social work approaches of Maori responsivity, networking, ecological systems and relational practice.
Conclusion: Social workers have an important role in advocating for, and effecting, system change. The process for doing so within the youth forensic forum is presented. Social workers in all fields of practice are encouraged to consider how they work to make systems more responsive to the people they serve."
Without established standards of care for different types of forensic mental health assessment, practice surveys can provide information about current trends among evaluators and gauge how "typical" ...practice follows best practices. This study provides an update on the use of assessment tools in evaluations of response style/malingering, competency to stand trial, mental state at time of alleged offense, and nonsexual violence risk. Almost all forensic evaluators (n = 102) indicated that they use assessment tools to some extent when conducting these types of forensic mental health assessment. Of the 4 instrument types-multiscale inventories, forensic assessment/relevant instruments, cognitive/neuropsychological instruments, and projective techniques-evaluators reported using multiscale inventories at higher rates in evaluations of mental state at time of offense and forensic assessment/relevant instruments at higher rates for the other 3 issues. Projective techniques were used the least often across all forensic issues. We also considered how evaluator variables relate to differences in test usage. Finally, we compare our results with those of previous practice surveys and discuss the implications of these findings.
•Suggestibility relates to the MIPS-R Thinking Styles.•Suggestibility relates to some of the MIPS-R Behaving Styles.•Imaginative individuals are less suggestible.•Dutiful and cooperative individuals ...are more suggestible.•Suggestibility does not relate to the MIPS-R maladjustment scales.
This study addresses the relationship between personality styles measured with the Portuguese adaptation of the Millon Index of Personality Styles Revised – MIPS-R and interrogative suggestibility assessed by the Portuguese adaptation of the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale – GSS1. Hypotheses predicted individual differences in suggestibility and that these differences correspond to differences in individuals’ personality styles. The study was conducted with a sample of 258 individuals (Mage=31.8years, SD=12.0). Results showed that there were individual differences in suggestibility and that these differences corresponded to certain personality characteristics, mainly related to the Thinking Styles and some Behaving Styles.
Abstract The formulation of human rights theory and policies represents an ethical advance and promises to supply a framework for resolving ethnic, social, and individual conflicts. Ethics is ...essentially a means for coordinating the conflicting interests of peoples and nations and human rights provide a strong foundation to do this in multiple domains. Our aim in this paper is to apply a human rights perspective, in association with a justifying theory and set of goods, to the correctional arena. First, we discuss the definition of human rights, their proper analysis and justification. We then apply the results of our discussion to the assessment, treatment, and monitoring of offenders. Finally, we consider the policy, research, and intervention implications of a human rights perspective for correctional practitioners.
Abstract A key technique associated with effective cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is the behavioral experiment (BE). Within mainstream clinical psychology, the overall aim of the BE is to treat ...clients' problematic beliefs as a set of hypotheses to be tested. In this review, I examine the BE as a treatment technique and argue that widespread implementation of the BE could significantly improve CBT-based forensic psychological practice. I examine contemporary conceptualizations of cognition within forensic psychology as well as commonly used treatment techniques for instilling cognitive change. This analysis highlights that although some experiential techniques are used in forensic psychology to facilitate cognitive change (e.g., schema therapy), there is still a key focus on rational reasoning techniques such as Socratic questioning, psychoeducation, and thought monitoring. In this paper, I argue that current methods of instigating cognitive change within offending populations neglect key strategies necessary to generate convincing cognitive change. I offer the BE as a convincing and effective technique for facilitating change in problematic offender cognition at both the rational and experiential levels. I offer several recommendations for how to design and incorporate BEs into forensic practice and provide examples of BE use in forensic settings.
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