Sexual predator evaluations and phrenology: considering issues of evidentiary reliability

Campbell, Terence W.

doi:10.1002/(sici)1099-0798(200001/02)18:1<111::aid-bsl382>3.0.co;2-p

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“…Whether partisan allegiance is a matter of mistaken public perception (Mossman, 1999), group socialization processes (Saks, 1990), or purposeful fact‐filtering for monetary gain, the reputation of the psychological discipline is tainted by examples of large discrepancies between experts' diagnoses and interpretation of diagnostic criteria. Psychologists are poised to assist the courts by providing relevant information about legal issues, but expert witnesses should still provide testimony in an unbiased way that allows the judges or jury to make the final decision (Campbell, 2000; Mercado & Ogloff, 2007; Shuman & Greenberg, 2003). Like all professionals in the field, expert witnesses have a professional responsibility to promote the well‐being of their clients; arguably, this is best accomplished by confining testimony to an impartial description of the facts, focusing especially upon an offender's risk factors and needs (Ewing, 1983; Shuman & Greenberg, 2003).…”

Section: Disproportionate Influence Of Partisan Allegiance On Structumentioning

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Psychopathy, expert testimony, and indeterminate sentences: Exploring the relationship between Psychopathy Checklist‐Revised testimony and trial outcome in Canada

Lloyd

Clark

Forth

2010

Legal Criminol Psychol

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Purpose. Psychopathy, as measured by the Hare Psychopathy Checklist‐Revised (PCL‐R), has the potential to inform judges attempting to preventatively detain Canada's highest risk offenders. However, studies examining the stigma of the psychopathy label give reason to exercise caution when expert witnesses introduce PCL‐R scores into their testimony. Methods. Judges' written or oral judgments were gathered from a publically available database in Canada. Dangerous offender hearings (N = 136) were examined to determine how factors within expert witness testimony were related to sentences of indeterminate or determinate length. Results. Results show a trend for PCL‐R scores to be related to trial outcome. Specifically, psychopathy diagnoses were correlated to experts' ratings of treatment amenability which were in turn related to trial outcome. In addition, experts tended to show partisan allegiance in the way they scored offenders on the PCL‐R. Conclusion. Discussion advocates a measure of caution when using PCL‐R testimony in an adversarial court context. Further research clarifying the role psychopathy plays in court decisions is also encouraged.

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Section: Disproportionate Influence Of Partisan Allegiance On Structumentioning

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Psychopathy, expert testimony, and indeterminate sentences: Exploring the relationship between Psychopathy Checklist‐Revised testimony and trial outcome in Canada

Lloyd

Clark

Forth

2010

Legal Criminol Psychol

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“…For example, confidentiality and boundary issues may be challenged when working with victims of violence and abuse, 56,110 consideration of boundary issues is sometimes problematic when working with patients with learning disabilities, 111 and abuse of power happens when therapists form sexual relationships with their patients. 71 …”

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A review and critical appraisal of measures of therapist-patient interactions in mental health settings

Cahill¹,

Barkham²,

Hardy³

et al. 2008

Health Technol Assess

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“…These conclusions are not surprising. Reviews of research have described the abysmal performance of violence risk assessments relying on unaided clinical judgment (Bonta, Law, & Hanson, 1998;Campbell, 2000;Grove & Meehl, 1996).…”

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Violence Risk Assessment at Federal Capital Sentencing

Cunningham¹,

Reidy

2002

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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The application of group statistical data to violence risk assessment enjoys strong empirical support. Accordingly, this method has dominated expert testimony regarding future dangerousness at federal capital sentencing trials across the past 5 years. Standards for admissibility of violence risk assessment testimony in federal capital sentencing are being considered but remain ambiguous. Challenges to violence risk assessment testimony in these cases have broadly centered on issues of relevancy and reliability. Corollary questions include when such assessments are sufficiently individualized, whether group data can be generalized across American correctional settings, what scientific evidence supports a given methodology, and how information regarding special conditions of confinement is relevant to risk. Conceptual perspectives and scientific evidence regarding each of these issues are discussed.

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Sexual predator evaluations and phrenology: considering issues of evidentiary reliability

Cited by 30 publications

References 23 publications

Psychopathy, expert testimony, and indeterminate sentences: Exploring the relationship between Psychopathy Checklist‐Revised testimony and trial outcome in Canada

Psychopathy, expert testimony, and indeterminate sentences: Exploring the relationship between Psychopathy Checklist‐Revised testimony and trial outcome in Canada

A review and critical appraisal of measures of therapist-patient interactions in mental health settings

Violence Risk Assessment at Federal Capital Sentencing

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