Assessment of Fitness to Stand Trial: The Need for a Profile Rather Than a Scale
- 1 December 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 57 (3_suppl) , 1051-1054
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1985.57.3f.1051
Abstract
A conceptual analysis of the concept of “fitness to stand trial” is presented. It is suggested that the real issue is the assessment of “unfitness” rather than “fitness”; that this is a multivariate, disjunctive, and relative concept; and that it must be measured in terms of a personality profile rather than a point along a unitary dimension.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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