Forensic evaluation types we review.
ForensicShield reviews forensic evaluations against the controlling legal standard, the methodological literature, and the cross-examination angles attorneys actually use. Each guide below covers one evaluation type — competency, custody, criminal responsibility, violence risk, psychosexual / SVP, mitigation, and personal injury.
One guide per evaluation type.
Competency to Stand Trial Evaluations
ForensicShield reviews competency to stand trial (CST) evaluations against the Dusky standard, the methodological literature, and the cross-examination angles attorneys actually use. For forensic psychologists writing CST reports.
Child Custody Evaluations
ForensicShield reviews child custody evaluations against the AFCC Model Standards, the APA guidelines, and the cross-examination angles family-law attorneys use. Built for forensic psychologists writing custody reports.
Criminal Responsibility / Insanity Defense Evaluations
ForensicShield reviews criminal responsibility (insanity defense) evaluations against the controlling state or federal test, the methodological literature on mental-state-at-offense reconstruction, and the cross-examination angles attorneys actually use.
Violence Risk Assessment Reports
ForensicShield reviews violence risk assessment reports against the actuarial / SPJ literature, the cross-examination angles attorneys use on group-to-individual inference, and the controlling jurisdictional admissibility framework.
Psychosexual Risk Assessment & SVP Evaluations
ForensicShield reviews psychosexual risk and Sexually Violent Predator (SVP) evaluations against the Static-99R / Stable-2007 literature, the volitional-impairment standard from Kansas v. Crane, and the cross-examination patterns most often used to challenge them.
Mitigation & Sentencing Evaluations
ForensicShield reviews mitigation and sentencing evaluations against the ABA Guidelines, the Wiggins/Williams/Rompilla line on failure-to-investigate-mitigation, the Atkins/Hall/Moore intellectual-disability framework, and the cross-examination patterns most often used to challenge mitigation testimony.
Personal Injury & IME Evaluations
ForensicShield reviews civil forensic personal-injury and IME evaluations against the Daubert reliability framework, the published methodology on malingering and proximate-cause analysis, and the cross-examination patterns most often used to challenge civil-side mental-health testimony.
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