1. _______________ formed a large part of freud's psychoanalytic method.
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Dream interpretation
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2. _____ is term used for the sex offender who is believed to be a continuing danger to society. Under SVP statutes, such offenders are civilly committed after the end of their prison sentences.
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Sexually violent predator (SVP)
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3. Is rogers Criminal Responsibility Assessment Scales (R-CRAS) measures designed to assess criminal responsibility and detect malingering in cases where the defendant is considering raising or has raised an insanity defense?
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True
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4. _____ is known as proof that one side in a legal dispute has more evidence in its favor than the other. It is the standard required in most civil suits and may be relevant to criminal proceedings as well, but not to establish guilt, which requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
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preponderance of the evidence
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5. _____ is defined as one of several tools used by clinicians to assess criminal responsibility, typically to determine whether an insanity defense could be supported.
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Mental State at the Time of the Offense Screening Evaluation (MSE)
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6. _____ is in criminal law, the guilty mind. It refers to the intent that is needed in order to be found guilty of a crime.
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mens rea
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7. Is malingering response style in which the individual consciously fabricates or grossly exaggerates his or her symptoms?
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True
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8. _____ is known as used by clinicians to evaluate competence to stand trial.
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10. _____ is the federal law passed in 1984 that changed the standard for determining insanity in federal courts and made it more difficult for defendants to use this defense.
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11. Is insanity in the legal context, this term describes a judicial determination that an individual’s mental disorder relieves him or her of criminal responsibility for illegal actions?
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True
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12. _____ is known as a verdict alternative in some states that allows defendants to be found guilty while seemingly affording them treatment for mental disorders.
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Guilty but mentally ill (GBMI)
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13. _____ is defined as conducted by psychologists and psychiatrists consulting with criminal courts. Competency to stand trial assessments and criminal responsibility evaluations are prominent examples.
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Forensic mental health assessments (FMHAs)
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14. _____ is relates to juvenile and adult competency to stand trial and decision-making abilities. The rule holds that defendants must be able to understand and appreciate the criminal proceedings against them and be able to assist their attorneys in their defense.
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dusky standard
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15. Is dual-purpose evaluations assessment of both a defendant’s competency to stand trial and criminal responsibility during the same evaluation. Dual-purpose evaluations are highly discouraged in legal and psychological literature but still occur with some frequency in many jurisdictions?
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True
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16. Is death penalty mitigation in capital cases, attempts by the defense team to reduce or avoid the sentence of death for their client based on factors that lessen the offender’s culpability. Examples of mitigating factors are the offender’s age and a history of child abuse?
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True
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17. _____ is known as assessment designed to determine whether a defense of insanity can be supported. Also called “mental state at time of offense” evaluation or “insanity” evaluation.
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18. _____ is defined as judicial or administrative release from an institutional setting (jail, prison, psychiatric hospital) on the condition that one demonstrates good behavior in the community or participates in mental health treatment.
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conditional release
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19. _____ is the legal standard that requires that criminal defendants be able to understand and appreciate criminal charges and help their attorneys in preparing a defense.
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competency to stand trial
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20. Is competency Screening Test (CST) sentence-completion examination intended to provide a quick assessment of a defendant’s competency to stand trial. The test taps the defendant’s knowledge about the role of the lawyer and the rudiments of the court process?
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True
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21. _____ is known as the treatment given to someone found incompetent to stand trial for the specific purpose of rendering the person competent to be tried.
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competency restoration
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22. _____ is defined as legal standard achieved when the truth of the facts asserted is highly probable but does not reach the standard of beyond a reasonable doubt.
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clear and convincing evidence
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23. _____ is the burden of proof that must be met by the government in all criminal cases.
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beyond a reasonable doubt
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24. Is aggravating factors circumstances surrounding a crime that heighten its seriousness for purposes of sentencing. An example would be an excessively heinous or cruel method of carrying out a crime, such as a torture murder?
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True
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25. _____ is known as the ability to participate in a variety of legal proceedings, including plea bargaining and participating in a criminal trial.
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adjudicative competence
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26. In many jurisdictions, intellectual disability is considered a(n) ______ circumstance.
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Mitigating
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27. Today, sentencing in the United States is indeterminate and based on a rehabilitative model of corrections.
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False
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28. What is the most common method of restoring competence to a defendant who is found incompetent?
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Medication
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29. All of the following statements are accurate about sexually violent predator statutes except ______.
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Sexually violent predators often receive intensive treatment while committed
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30. The label “fixated child molester” is an example of a sex offender ______.
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Typology
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31. The APA recommends that psychologists performing risk assessments should only use ______ instruments.
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Validated
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32. Reducing a sentence to avoid the death penalty is known as ______.
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Death penalty mitigation
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33. Which question is central to the determination of insanity?
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Did the defendant possess a guilty mind at the time the crime was committed?
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34. Many individuals found NGRI are hospitalized for longer than the time they would have served had they been convicted.
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True
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35. There is no uniform standard for determining insanity.
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True
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36. Which competency assessment instrument taps a defendant’s knowledge about the role of his or her attorney?
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The Competency Screening Test
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37. Theodore Kaczynski rejected his attorney’s advice to ______.
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Plead not guilty by reason of insanity
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38. According to the Dusky standard, a defendant must not only understand what is happening but also be ______.
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Able to assist in his or her own defense
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39. The psychological research literature is increasingly replacing the term competency to stand trial with ______.
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Adjudicative competence
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40. What is the most common type of forensic mental health assessment?
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Competency to stand trial evaluations
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