Summary of Needed Areas of Research
| Competency to Stand Trial (CST) Assessments in PWID/SC |
| Assess whether prior education affects evaluators’ comfort in detecting intellectual disabilities and understanding how they manifest in CST assessments |
| Assess the degree to which PWID/SC understand disclosures made prior to CST assessments and to what degree lack of understanding affects their engagement in these evaluations and what they disclose to examiners |
| Determine rates of incompetency to stand trial among PWID/SC |
| Explore the role of bias in CST assessments in PWID/SC |
| Defenses of Mental Illness or Impairment in PWID/SC |
| Evaluate how often PWID/SC raise an NGRI defense and how often it is successful |
| Explore whether lack of appreciation of societal standards and lack of sexual education may, at times, meet insanity defense standards |
| Determine appropriate guidelines for the evaluation of diminished capacity in defendants with PWID/SC |
| SVP Assessments for PWID/SC |
| Determine the prevalence of PWID/SC who are committed under these statutes |
| Determine how often competency to consent to be interviewed is determined by forensic evaluators for these evaluations |
| Assess whether forensic clinicians feel comfortable evaluating the role an intellectual disability may have on determining whether a person is at risk for violent recidivism |
| Assess how accurate psychiatrists are in diagnosing a paraphilic disorder in a PWID/SC |
| “Chemical Castration” for PWID/SC |
| Determine how often these agents are being used on PWID/SC |
| Determine the process for obtaining informed consent (written, verbal) and how well those with ID understand the agents that they are receiving |
| Determine how comfortable psychiatrists are in treating those with PWID/SC with anti-libidinal agents |