Predicting Probability of Attaining Fitness to Stand Trial
- 1 August 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 55 (1) , 35-39
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1984.55.1.35
Abstract
Mental health professionals' accuracy in predictions on the probability of unfit defendants' ability of attaining fitness to stand trial was examined. An over-all 78% accuracy in such predictions was found. It is interesting to note that all errors were due to overpredicting individuals' ability to attain fitness. The implications are discussed.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
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