TY - JOUR
AU - Miller, Kent, S.
AB - Abstract Court records of mental incompetency proceedings for a five-year period from a single county were analyzed to determine (1) the extent of actual involvement of the legal system in the cases, and (2) whether the adjudication was correlated with the legal variables and with two characteristics of the examining physicians. It was concluded that the legal system is only peripherally involved in incompetency cases and that the decisions, rather than being objective medical decisions, were correlated with a number of non-medical factors, including the legal variables and the amount of experience of the examining physicians in these types of cases. This content is only available as a PDF. Author notes * We gratefully acknowledge the comments of Wiley P. Mangum. © 1972 Society for the Study of Social Problems, Inc.
TI - Legal Processes and Adjudication in Mental Incompetency Proceedings
JF - Social Problems
DO - 10.2307/799500
DA - 1972-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/legal-processes-and-adjudication-in-mental-incompetency-proceedings-alWWSTlzWX
SP - 57
EP - 64
VL - 20
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -