We know surprisingly little about the interrater reliability of forensic psychological opinions,
even though courts and other authorities have long called for known error rates for scientific …

Abstract [Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 20 (3) of
Psychology, Public Policy, and Law (see record 2014-30730-002). This article contained an …

Decision-making of mental health professionals is influenced by irrelevant information (eg,
Murrie, Boccaccini, Guarnera, & Rufino, 2013). However, the extent to which mental health …

This article reviews and evaluates publications during 2001–2010 with relevance for
assessments of competence to stand trial, referred to in this article as adjudicative …

Competency-related services are rising at an unprecedented rate in the United States. Many
states are in the midst of lawsuits and legal maneuvering to deal with long wait lists for …

Experts in forensic psychology must make skilled observations and conclusions, minimally
compromised by bias, in order to try and provide reliable and accurate conclusions to the …

Objective: Field research increasingly reveals that forensic evaluators are not
interchangeable. Instead, they tend to differ in their patterns of forensic opinions, in ways that …

When crime scene investigators (CSIs) encounter crime scenes with large volumes of blood,
some selection and prioritization is often needed, and this will impact on what blood is and is …

When different clinicians evaluate the same criminal defendant's legal sanity, do they reach
the same conclusion? Because Hawaii law requires multiple, independent evaluations …

Background: Small businesses are an important part of the South African economy, yet they
have high rates of failure. Several contributing factors have previously been identified …