Author(s) : Steven K. Hoge, Richard J. Bonnie, Norman G. Poythress and John Monahan
Publisher : PAR, 1999
SKU : EP146
The MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool-Criminal Adjudication (MacCAT-CA) can be used to evaluate a defendant's capacity to proceed to adjudication and is appropriate for use with both felony and misdemeanour defendants.
It is a 22-item structured interview for the pre-trial assessment of adjudicative competence, which uses a vignette format and objectively scored questions to standardise the measurement of three competence-related abilities: understanding, reasoning, and appreciation.
The MacCAT-CA Professional eManual presents guidelines for the clinical interpretation of the three measures based on a national norming study of 729 defendants. Score ranges are provided for three levels of impairment (none or minimal, mild, or clinically significant) for each measured ability.
It also presents important findings from the MacArthur "field studies" and the NIMH "norming" study that support the use of the MacCAT-CA in clinical evaluations of adjudicative competence.
Administrative, Scoring, Interpretation and Psychometric information is also provided.
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