@article{ref1,
title="Attorney- client decision- making in criminal cases: Client competence and participation as perceived by their attorneys",
journal="Behavioral sciences and the law",
year="1992",
author="Hoge, Steven K. and Bonnie, Richard J. and Poythress, Norman and Monahan, John",
volume="10",
number="3",
pages="385-394",
abstract="The authors employed a structured interview to ascertain public defenders' perceptions of their clients' competence and the degree of their participation in the defense. In a sample of 122 randomly selected, non-dismissed felony cases, attorneys had doubts about the competence of 14.8% (n = 18) of their clients. Attorneys reported that clients whose competence was doubted were less involved in decision-making and, overall, were passive participants in their cases. Nearly one-half of these clients were not referred for assessment by a mental health professional. The authors compare the practices of attorneys faced with clients of suspected competence with those of mental health clinicians treating patients with impairments in decision-making capacity.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0735-3936",
doi="10.1002/bsl.2370100308",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bsl.2370100308"
}