Jam-packed new issue of psychiatry-law journal

The latest issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law is now available online, with interesting articles on competency, insanity, dangerousness, practice guidelines, diagnosis in SVP proceedings (a topic I am addressing in an upcoming training and an article in press), and much more:

• Revisiting the Politics of Dangerousness by Gregory B. Leong

• Mandated Community Treatment: Applying Leverage to Achieve Adherence by the illustrious John Monahan

• Clinical Practice Guidelines as Learned Treatises: Understanding Their Use as Evidence in the Courtroom by Patricia R. Recupero

• Commentary: When Is a Practice Guideline Only a Guideline? by Howard Zonana

• Forensic Applications of Cerebral Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury by Hal S. Wortzel, Christopher M. Filley, C. Alan Anderson, Timothy Oster, and David B. Arciniegas

• Applications of Functional Neuroimaging to Civil Litigation of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury by Robert P. Granacher, Jr

• The Conditional Release of Insanity Acquittees: Three Decades of Decision-Making by Barbara E. McDermott, Charles L. Scott, David Busse, Felecia Andrade, Michelle Zozaya, and Cameron D. Quanbeck

• Biases That Affect the Decision to Conditionally Release an Insanity Acquittee by Patrick K. Fox

• Conceptualizing and Characterizing Accuracy in Assessments of Competence to Stand Trial by Douglas Mossman

• Facts and Values in Competency Assessment by Alec Buchanan

• Making Consent More Informed: Preliminary Results From a Multiple-Choice Test Among Probation-Referred Marijuana Users Entering a Randomized Clinical Trial by Daniel B. Rounsaville, Karen Hunkele, Caroline J. Easton, Charla Nich, and Kathleen M. Carroll

• Defining Mental Disorder When It Really Counts: DSM-IV-TR and SVP/SDP Statutes by Allen Frances, Shoba Sreenivasan, and Linda E. Weinberger

• Testimony by Mentally Ill Individuals by Yuval Melamed

The LEGAL DIGEST section includes the following summaries and analyses:

• Competence to Waive Miranda Rights by Aimee Kaempf and Debra A. Pinals

• Waiver of Postconviction Relief (PCR) and PCR Counsel by Kimberly A. Larson and Albert J. Gruzdinskas

• Videotaped Confessions and Miranda Rights by Paul Noroian

• Guardianship and Autonomy in Decision-Making by Deepak Dev and Debra A. Pinals

• Competence to Plead Guilty and Seek the Death Penalty by Casey Helmkamp, Hal S. Wortzel, and Richard Martinez

• Mitigating Evidence in a Death Penalty Case by Gregory Kellermeyer, Hal S. Wortzel, and Richard Martinez

• Mental Retardation and the Death Penalty: Addressing Various Questions Regarding an Atkins Claim by Jacob Widroff and Clarence Watson

• Sum of Errors and Due Process Owed to Mentally III Defendant by Elena del Busto and Clarence Watson

• Termination of Parental Rights by Sarah Rasco and Heidi Vermette

And there's even more, believe it or not – check out the full table of contents here.