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.

Reframing the clouded scientific spectacles of the Flynn effect: A view through two lenses - ScienceDirect

Law and psychology must think critically about effect sizes | SpringerLink

Psychological Testing in Forensic Contexts Conducted Remotely | Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

Ongoing trends of human intelligence - ScienceDirect

Domain-specificity of Flynn effects in the CHC-model: Stratum II test score changes in Germanophone samples (1996–2018) - ScienceDirect

Following up after Moore and Hall: A national survey of state legislation defining intellectual disability. - PsycNET

Assessment: The power and potential of psychological testing, educational measurement, and program evaluation around the world. - PsycNET

Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Criminality, and Criminal Responsibility | Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

J. Intell. | Special Issue : Assessment of Human Intelligence—State of the Art in the 2020s

Law Review Article: Broderick (2022). Executing defendents with intellectual disabilities: Unconstitutional in theory, persistent in practice

J. Intell. | Free Full-Text | Linguistic Influences on Cognitive Test Performance: Examinee Characteristics Are More Important than Test Characteristics

SCOTUS to hear Georgia’s Atkins ID death penalty “beyond reasonabledoubt” law

The secular trend of intelligence test scores: The Danish experience for young men born between 1940 and 2000

Greenspan & Brown (2021) on FASD as per AAIDD and DSM-5-TR approaches

Genetically informed, multilevel analysis of the Flynn Effect across four decades and three WISC versions - Giangrande - - Child Development - Wiley Online Library

‘Race-norming’ kept former NFL players from dementia diagnoses. Their families want answers.

Professional Pitfalls in Malingering Determinations | Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

Ernest Johnson eligible for death penalty, Missouri Supreme Court says

Forensic evaluators’ opinions on the use of videoconferencing technology for competency to stand trial evaluations after the onset of COVID-19. - PsycNET

Discontinuing the Flynn effect reference archive project.

Flynn effect reference project: 06-21-21

'No Defendant Has Ever Met This Burden': Inside Georgia's Death Sentence Ruling

Full article: Considering the boundaries of intellectual disability: Using philosophy of science to make sense of borderline cases

Atkins Court Decisions: Webster v US (2021), Haliburton v FL (2021)

Two recent Atkins related articles: Johnson et al (2019) and LaPrade & Worrall (2020)

Atkins Court Decisions: Bourgeois v US (2020), Milam v TX (2021), Reeves v AL (2020), Petetan v TX (2021)

That the powerful play goes on: Advances in forensic psychology, and next steps. - PsycNET

The future of intelligence research and gifted education - ScienceDirect