PSYC 235 Lecture Notes - Psychopathy Checklist, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Dangerous Offender

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Any juncture from riding with police, testifying at trial, offender assessment/treatment. Fitness/criminal responsibility: fitness -> fit to stand on trial. Person should not be subject to criminal justice system if they cannot participate in aspects of trial. Only time you can be able to force someone into getting treatment is to make them fit enough to stand trial (injection) -> hospital stay, medication. Criminal responsibility -> under canadian criminal code. Not just to put someone into prison if they could not understand what was happening during the trial/could not control themselves during the legitimate crime-spree (due to having a mental disorder) Substance abuse psychosis -> bat salts (eat someone"s face) so on a substance that it completely causes issues. Risk of violence, risk of sexual offending. Youth transfer to adult court: adolescences having trouble with the law, should not be treated as adults.

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