How reliable are forensic evaluations of legal sanity?

When different clinicians evaluate the same criminal defendant's legal sanity, do they reach the same conclusion? Because Hawaii law requires multiple, independent evaluations when questions about legal sanity arise, Hawaii allows for the first contemporary study of the reliability of legal san...

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Published in:	Law and human behavior Vol. 37; no. 2; p. 98
Main Authors:	Gowensmith, W Neil, Murrie, Daniel C, Boccaccini, Marcus T
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States 01.04.2013
Subjects:	Adult Female Forensic Psychiatry Humans Insanity Defense Male Reproducibility of Results Substance-Related Disorders - complications
ISSN:	1573-661X, 1573-661X
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