TY - JOUR
T1 - Gender and malingering in defendants deemed incompetent to stand trial
AU - Nesbit-Bartsch, Ariana E.
AU - McDermott, Barbara E.
AU - Warburton, Katherine D.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was conducted as part of a collaborative effort between the California Department of State Hospitals-Napa (DSH-Napa) and University of California-Davis School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, funded by the California Department of State Hospitals. This research was approved by the Human Subjects Committee at DSH-Napa, the State of California Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects, and the University of California-Davis School of Medicine institutional review board. Because these were data collected for clinical purposes, the review board granted a waiver of informed consent.
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PY - 2021/6/1
Y1 - 2021/6/1
N2 - The relationships between gender and malingering have received little attention in the literature. Our study examined data from 1,748 patients committed as incompetent to stand trial between 2008 and 2017, of whom 397 were women. Scores on a structured assessment of feigned psychiatric symptoms were only slightly higher for men than for women. Yet evaluators believed that over 23 percent of men but less than 15 percent of women were malingering. Our data suggest that these gender differences in rates of malingering may be attributable to symptom constellations and extent of criminal arrest history.
AB - The relationships between gender and malingering have received little attention in the literature. Our study examined data from 1,748 patients committed as incompetent to stand trial between 2008 and 2017, of whom 397 were women. Scores on a structured assessment of feigned psychiatric symptoms were only slightly higher for men than for women. Yet evaluators believed that over 23 percent of men but less than 15 percent of women were malingering. Our data suggest that these gender differences in rates of malingering may be attributable to symptom constellations and extent of criminal arrest history.
KW - Gender
KW - Incompetent to stand trial
KW - Malingering
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U2 - 10.29158/JAAPL.200083-20
DO - 10.29158/JAAPL.200083-20
M3 - Article
C2 - 33771911
AN - SCOPUS:85108386203
VL - 49
SP - 211
EP - 218
JO - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
JF - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
SN - 1093-6793
IS - 2
ER -