The Improvement of Forensic Assessments

1987 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 366-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
Forensic Assessments

MMPI-2 in Child Custody Litigation

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Roma ◽  
Federica Ricci ◽  
Georgios D. Kotzalidis ◽  
Luigi Abbate ◽  
Anna Lubrano Lavadera ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Child Custody ◽  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Custody Evaluations ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Female Population ◽  
Clinical Scales ◽  
Forensic Assessments ◽  
Child Custody Evaluations ◽  
Italian Women

In recent years, several studies have addressed the issue of positive self-presentation bias in assessing parents involved in postdivorce child custody litigations. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) is widely used in forensic assessments and is able to evaluate positive self-presentation through its Superlative Self-Presentation S scale. We investigated the existence of a gender effect on positive self-presentation bias in an Italian sample of parents involved in court evaluation. Participants were 391 divorced parents who completed the full 567-item Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 during child custody evaluations ordered by several Italian courts between 2006 and 2010. Our analysis considered the S scale along with the basic clinical scales. North-American studies had shown no gender differences in child custody litigations. Differently, our results showed a significantly higher tendency toward “faking-good” profiles on the MMPI-2 among Italian women as compared to men and as compared to the normative Italian female population. Cultural and social factors could account for these differences.

Disclosing Child Sexual Abuse during Forensic Assessments of the Black South African Child

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jabulani Makhubele ◽  
Selelo Frank Rapholo
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
South African ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
African Child ◽  
Black South African ◽  
Forensic Assessments ◽  
South African Child ◽  
Forensic Interviewers

Child sexual abuse is a social and health issue that affects citizens across the globe. It has a number of physical, psychological and emotional consequences. Children are reluctant to talk about their involvement in sexual abuse owing to various reasons. Therefore, forensic interviewers need to understand the process of disclosure when conducting forensic assessments. They also need to be watchful of various dynamics that are likely to have an impact on the disclosure rate. The aim of this study was to describe the dynamics during forensic assessments in the context of the black South African child when disclosing child sexual abuse. A descriptive design using stratified random, purposive and convenient sampling techniques to select the participants was employed, resulting in 14 participants (13 were females and only one was male). The data were collected by means of semi-structured in-depth interviews and were thematically analysed using the Nvivo program. The findings reveal that personal characteristics of the child and the interviewer, their communication abilities, blind assessments and informed allegation interviews have an impact on forensic assessments of black South African children. It is concluded that the dynamics of disclosing child sexual abuse during forensic assessments in terms of the variables of the study are not unique, except in terms of sociocultural value systems, beliefs and customs. As a result, it is recommended that the forensic interviewers come to the developmental level of the child, speak his/her language or use translators for him/her to understand, and to follow blind assessments interviews as opposed to informed allegation interviews. However, informed allegations interviews are recommended when assessing very young children.

Conditional Genotypic Probabilities for Microsatellite Loci

Genetics ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 155 (4) ◽  
pp. 1973-1980
Author(s):  
Jinko Graham ◽  
James Curran ◽  
B S Weir
Keyword(s):  
Short Tandem Repeats ◽  
Tandem Repeats ◽  
Dirichlet Distribution ◽  
Forensic Dna ◽  
Match Probability ◽  
Microsatellite Genotype ◽  
Allelic State ◽  
Forensic Assessments ◽  
Dna Profiles ◽  
Short Tandem

Abstract Modern forensic DNA profiles are constructed using microsatellites, short tandem repeats of 2–5 bases. In the absence of genetic data on a crime-specific subpopulation, one tool for evaluating profile evidence is the match probability. The match probability is the conditional probability that a random person would have the profile of interest given that the suspect has it and that these people are different members of the same subpopulation. One issue in evaluating the match probability is population differentiation, which can induce coancestry among subpopulation members. Forensic assessments that ignore coancestry typically overstate the strength of evidence against the suspect. Theory has been developed to account for coancestry; assumptions include a steady-state population and a mutation model in which the allelic state after a mutation event is independent of the prior state. Under these assumptions, the joint allelic probabilities within a subpopulation may be approximated by the moments of a Dirichlet distribution. We investigate the adequacy of this approximation for profiled loci that mutate according to a generalized stepwise model. Simulations suggest that the Dirichlet theory can still overstate the evidence against a suspect with a common microsatellite genotype. However, Dirichlet-based estimators were less biased than the product-rule estimator, which ignores coancestry.

Impact of legal reforms on length of forensic assessments in Alberta, Canada

2001 ◽  
Vol 24 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 527-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Stuart ◽  
Julio Arboleda-Flórez ◽  
Annette S. Crisanti
Keyword(s):  
Legal Reforms ◽  
Forensic Assessments

Three Opportunities for the Future of Juvenile Forensic Assessment

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (12) ◽  
pp. 1671-1677
Author(s):  
Thomas Grisso
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Forensic Assessment ◽  
Criminal Courts ◽  
Forensic Evaluations ◽  
Forensic Assessments ◽  
The Future

Legal and social circumstances now offer the field of juvenile forensic assessment several opportunities to expand its identity, influence, and value to society. These opportunities include (a) conceptualizing an assessment domain called evaluations for developmental sentencing, (b) creating developmental forensic evaluations of emerging adults, and (c) adapting juvenile forensic assessments to the nation’s increasing ethnic and cultural diversity. If successfully attempted, these opportunities could transform juvenile forensic assessment’s identity, reimagining itself as developmental forensic assessment applied to offenders in both juvenile and criminal courts.

“You Have to Separate the Sinner From the Sin”: Clinician’s Approaches to Psychological Assessments With Men who Have Sexually Offended

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (15) ◽  
pp. 1514-1532
Author(s):  
Gemma Chawke ◽  
Patrick Randall ◽  
Simon C. Duff
Keyword(s):  
Private Practice ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Treatment Recommendations ◽  
Psychological Assessments ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
Forensic Assessments ◽  
Sexually Offended

Men who have sexually offended are often referred for presentence psychological assessments to determine factors which contributed to offending, identify risk of recidivism, and develop treatment recommendations. The accuracy of assessments is largely reliant on the cooperation of the assessee. Despite the significant legal and emotional consequences, how clinicians approach these assessments, attempt to engage assessees, and overcome resistance have not been investigated. This research sought to develop an understanding of the clinicians’ experience of conducting the assessment. How clinicians approach interviews with men who have sexually offended and the techniques they use were explored. Six interviews were conducted with qualified psychologists, at a private practice, whose role included conducting psychological assessments across a range of forensic matters. The findings, reached using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, highlighted the relational/social nature of the interaction and the clinicians’ experience of a somewhat blurred line in practice between forensic assessments and therapeutic endeavours.

scholarly journals SOME ASPECTS OF THE EVALUATION ACTIONS OF MILITARY OFFICERS OF ANTI-TERRORIST OPERATION AND THEIR DIFFERENCES FROM EVALUATION THE ACTIONS OF THE SAME PERSONS DURING THE UNITED FORCES OPERATION

2020 ◽  
pp. 715-721
Author(s):  
A. Vlasiuk
Keyword(s):  
Research Work ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Military Officers ◽  
State Security ◽  
Administration Of Justice ◽  
Forensic Assessments ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Forensic Expert ◽  
Military Units

The article lays out certain aspects that are being investigated within the framework of the research work “Development of a methodology for conducting military forensic assessments of the actions of officials (leaders, commanders, chiefs) of counter-terrorism entities during an anti-terrorist operation” based on the analysis of the structure of the forensic expert methodology, as well as their differences from the evaluation of the actions of the same persons during the operation of the united forces in repelling armed aggression of the Russian Federation. Thus, research of certain aspects of the evaluation of the actions of officials (leaders, commanders, chiefs, other military personnel) of the anti-terrorist operation and the actions of the same persons during the operation of the united forces, indicates differences in international and national legislative, other regulatory regulation of their activities. In particular, in various state-authorized bodies of the state security and defense sector, forces and means that were used (are used) during the operation, management of the operation, goals, objectives, functions, planning, provision and organization of its implementation, use as directed by personnel military units, the legality of using weapons, etc. At the same time, the conducted studies provide the basis for understanding the need to further improve the legal regulation of operations by forces and means of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Security Service of Ukraine, other bodies of the security and defense sector and searching and providing answers to questions that arise in modern conditions administration of justice, including in the course of conducting forensic military examinations.

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