Deardorff,
P.A., Ficke, S.L., Hart, K.J. The Performance of Incarcerated Juveniles on the
MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool-Criminal Adjudication (MacCAT-CA). 2006.
Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online, Vol. 34, No.
3, pp. 360 – 373. This study examines the performance of 247 juveniles on the
MacCAT-CA test, in addition to a myriad of other variables. The purpose of the
study was to compare and contrast how the scores of juveniles who were in the
court appointed systems and those who weren’t, for the overall sake of
illuminating how deficient the court system was/is. The other variables were
measured for the sake of determining achievement and intelligence levels as
well as obtaining psychoanalysis of the juveniles. This study offers valuable
insight into how the process of justice is in many instances anything but just.
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