Psychology 2032A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Psychopathy, Sleepwalking, Hypoglycemia

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2032A/B
• Professor: John Campbell

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Lecture 9 - assessing fitness & the not criminally. Presumptions in canada"s legal system: elements that must be present for criminal guilt, actus reus: a wrongful deed, men"s rea: criminal intent, must be found beyond a reasonable doubt for a guilty verdict to be reached. Fitness standard: the defendant is mute or malice (ex; intentionality, the defendant can plead to the indictment, the defendant has sufficient cognitive capacity to understand proceedings. Taylor (cid:894)(cid:1005)99(cid:1006)(cid:895) spe(cid:272)ified the (cid:862)(cid:271)est i(cid:374)terest rule(cid:863) (cid:449)as too stri(cid:272)t a (cid:272)riterio(cid:374) Five-day limit for fitness evaluations with provisions, if necessary. Issue of fitness may be raised at various stages of the proceedings. Fitness interview test revised (fit-r; roesch et al. , 1998: competency screening test (cst, competency to stand trial assessment instrument (cai) Interdisciplinary fitness interview (ifi: macarthur competence assessment tool-criminal adjudication (maccat-ca) Unfit to stand trial: proceedings halted until fit, reassessed within 45 days, attempt to restore defendant to fitness, most common method is medication.