Access the full text.
Sign up today, get DeepDyve free for 14 days.
Loading next page...
/lp/emerald-publishing/the-inventory-of-legal-knowledge-ilk-and-adults-with-intellectual-ULIi0BHOhh
References (10)
-
Joan Petersilia (2000)
Doing Justice? Criminal Offenders with Developmental Disabilities. Detailed Research Findings. -
L. Hildman, Paul Friedberg, P. Wright (1993)
Kaufman Brief Intelligence TestJournal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 11
-
Malingering
Applied Psychology in Criminal Justice, 2
-
T. Tombaugh (2003)
The Test of Memory Malingering (TOMM) in Forensic Psychology, 2
-
D. Green, B. Rosenfeld (2011)
Evaluating the gold standard: a review and meta-analysis of the Structured Interview of Reported Symptoms.Psychological assessment, 23 1
-
Christina Guenther, R. Otto (2010)
Identifying persons feigning limitations in their competence to proceed in the legal process.Behavioral sciences & the law, 28 5
-
T. Tombaugh (1997)
The Test of Memory Malingering (TOMM): Normative data from cognitively intact and cognitively impaired individuals.Psychological Assessment, 9
-
R. Otto, Jeffrey Musick, C. Sherrod (2011)
Convergent Validity of a Screening Measure Designed to Identify Defendants Feigning Knowledge Deficits Related to Competence to Stand TrialAssessment, 18
-
E. Gottfried, J. Carbonell (2014)
The role of intelligence on performance on the Inventory of Legal Knowledge (ILK)The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology, 25
-
Kolleen Hurley, W. Deal (2006)
Assessment instruments measuring malingering used with individuals who have mental retardation: potential problems and issues.Mental retardation, 44 2
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing
- Copyright
- Copyright © Emerald Group Publishing Limited
- ISSN
- 2050-8824
- DOI
- 10.1108/JIDOB-10-2016-0018
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
PurposeAdults with intellectual disabilities (ID) entering the legal system in the USA are at heightened risk of being incorrectly labeled as malingering. The Inventory of Legal Knowledge (ILK) was recently developed to assess response style of individuals undergoing competency to stand trial (CST) evaluations. The purpose of this paper is to present preliminary data on the utility of the ILK with adults with ID.Design/methodology/approachIn total, 32 adults were recruited from an American day program for adults with ID. Using a simulation design, the first 24 participants were assigned to the honest responding group and the remaining eight were assigned to the fake bad group. The normative performance of the honest responding group was compared to established norms for adults without ID, the most efficient ILK cut-off score was examined, and convergent validity of the ILK and other malingering measures tested.FindingsCompared to the established mean score, the recommended cut-off score, and two independent published samples of non-ID adults, the normative performance of the honest responding ID group was significantly lower. Analyses of area under the curve revealed that the ILK lacked sufficient ability to discriminate adults with ID instructed to respond honestly from those instructed to feign incompetence, and correlational analyses failed to support the convergent validity of the ILK in this sample.Research limitations/implicationsThe present findings do not support the use of the ILK with adults with ID, even with adjusted cut scores. The development of novel malingering measures that can be used in the context of CST evaluations with adults with ID is needed.Originality/valueThe present study is the first to examine the psychometric properties of the ILK with adults diagnosed with ID and without concomitant psychiatric symptomatology.
Journal
Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour – Emerald Publishing
Published: Jun 12, 2017