TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1987//
TI  - Psychiatric prediction of dangerousness in capital sentencing: The quest for innocent authority
JO  - Behavioral sciences and the law
A1  - Worrell, Claudia M.
SP  - 433
EP  - 446
VL  - 5
IS  - 4
N2  - Eight states require the sentencer in a capital case to consider directly the question of whether a criminal defendant would pose a danger to the community in the long term. Although all available psychiatric evidence indicates that psychiatrists cannot make accurate predictions of criminal defendants' future dangerousness, sentencers rely heavily upon clinicians' predictions of long-term future dangerousness when imposing the death penalty. Legislatures and courts accept psychiatrists' predictions of dangerousness by relying on an elaborate "subterfuge" which uses powerful emotional influences to cover up painful conflicts of values and to satisfy society's desire for simultaneous innocence and authority.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0735-3936
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bsl.2370050407
ID  - ref1
ER  -