Date of Award
2009
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts in Criminal Justice
Department
Criminal Justice
First Advisor
Tibbetts, Stephen
Second Advisor
Schram, Pamela
Third Advisor
Sechrest, Dale
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to determine how to detect whether a person is faking a mental illness. An area that is often malingered is insanity, where criminal defendents will fake that they are mentally ill as to avoid imprisonment or the death penalty. The death penalty is one of the most difficult defenses to raise and is rarely successful.
Recommended Citation
Bounds, Loran Noelle, "Detection of deception in criminal defendents: Treatment or trial?" (2009). Theses Digitization Project. 3620.
https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3620
