Intellectual Competence & the Death Penalty

An attempt to provide understandable and up-to-date information regarding intelligence testing, intelligence theories, personal competence, adaptive behavior and intellectual disability (mental retardation) as they relate to death penalty (capital punishment) issues. A particular focus will be on psychological measurement, statistical and psychometric issues.

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Research Brief: Mental illness and true and false confession research

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Research Brief: Effect of cross-exam questioning on witness accuracy

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Research Brief: Does neurological-image evidence influence jurors in criminal jury trials ?

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FYiPOST: Morse on "Gene-Environment Interactions, Criminal Responsibility, and Sentencing"

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Recently posted to SSRN: "Gene-Environment Interactions, Criminal Responsibility, and Sentencing" GENE INTERACTIONS IN DEVELOPMENT...
Monday, August 29, 2011

FYiPOST: INS Annual Meeting--Law and Neuroscience Update

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I've posted before about the upcoming annual meeting of the International Neuroethics Society. Here's the link to the current schedu...

FYiPOST: Denno on Neuroscience and Punishment

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Recently posted to SSRN: "Changing Law's Mind: How Neuroscience Can Help Us Punish Criminals More Fairly and Effectively" CHAN...

FYiPOST: New US Sentencing Commission reviews of sentencing jurisprudence

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From Sentencing and Law Blog Undaunted by earthquakes or hurricanes or the unnatural disasters that are even more common inside the Beltway ...

FYiPOST: Top-Ten Recent SSRN Downloads

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in criminal law and procedure ejournals are here. The usual disclaimers apply. Rank Downloads Paper Title 1 425 Who's Better at Defendin...
Sunday, August 28, 2011

Research Brief: Accuracy of SIRS-2 with MR/ID subjects

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Research byte: Another good overview article on IRT test development methods--relevance to clinical assessment

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Saturday, August 27, 2011

FYiPOST: Denno on Neuroscience, Fairness and Effectiveness in Punishment

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Deborah W. Denno (Fordham University School of Law) has posted Changing Law's Mind: How Neuroscience Can Help Us Punish Criminals More F...
Thursday, August 25, 2011

FYiPOST: Perlin on Mental Disabilities and the Competence to Have Sex

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Michael L. Perlin (New York Law School) has posted 'All His Sexless Patients': Persons with Mental Disabilities and the Competence t...
Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Atkins MR/ID Death Penalty Decision: Burns v Florida (2011) update

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The Atkins MR/ID Death Penalty Decision blogroll has added the recent Burns v Florida (2011) decision, which updates the prior 2006 decisi...
Sunday, August 21, 2011

FYiPOST: Top-Ten Recent SSRN Downloads

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in criminal law and procedure ejournals are here. The usual disclaimers apply. Rank Downloads Paper Title 1 406 Who's Better at Defendin...
Saturday, August 20, 2011

Research Bytes: Are individuals with. MR/ID getting more or less intelligent +....

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My university library does not carry this journal. If any reader could send me PDF copies I would make the abstracts available to the blog ...

Research briefs: Misc new articles relayed to criminal justice

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Bewely, M. T., & Morgan, R. D. (2011). A National Survey of Mental Health Services Available to Offenders with Mental Illness: Who Is Do...
Friday, August 19, 2011

FYiPOST: TEXAS JUDGE UPHOLDS DOCTORAL DEGREE FOR INDEPENDENT PRACTICE OF PSYCHOLOGY

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One of the best books on intellectual assessment has been revised: Flanagan & Harrison's Contemporary Intellectual Assessment

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Just in time for your XMAS shopping!!!! One of the best texts on intellectual assessment and theories related to the practice of intellectua...
Thursday, August 18, 2011

FYiPOST: New forensic specialty guidelines approved

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Pass-a-long post from Karen Franklin "After a 9-year revision process, the American Psychological Association has finally approved new ...

FYiPOST: AAIDD conferences and events

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Weekly Member Update for August 18, 2011 Conferences and Events US - Nordic International Conference on Intellectual Disabilities ...
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Dr. Kevin McGrew is Director of the Institute for Applied Psychometrics (llc). Additional information, including potential conflicts of interest resulting from commercial test development or other consultation, can be found at The MindHub(TM; http://www.themindhub.com ). General email contact is iqmcgrew@gmail.com
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