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Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Risk Assessment
 * Risk assessment has a section in the Forensic psychology article, but it is very short and lacks citations. Risk assessment also has it's own article, but it doesn't include anything about risk assessment in a forensic context. The Risk assessment article has a section called "Fields of application," but forensic or legal is not one of the fields covered there. I think it would be useful to add it. The Risk assessment section of the Forensic psychology article is maybe even more in need of assistance, as it is very short and has only one citation, which is from 1994. This section could be strengthened by drawing on more and more recent sources, and providing more examples of current methods of risk assessment.
 * Sources:
 * Psychological Evaluations for the Courts: A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals and Lawyers, 4th ed. (Melton et al., 2018)
 * The Accuracy of Recidivism Risk Assessments for Sexual Offenders: A Meta-Analysis of 118 Prediction Studies (Hanson et al., 2009)
 * Handbook of Recidivism Risk/Needs Assessment Tools (Singh et al., 2018)
 * Offender Risk and Need Assessment (chapter in The Wiley International Handbook of Correctional Psychology) (Olver et al., 2019)
 * Handbook of Recidivism Risk/Needs Assessment Tools (Singh et al., 2018)
 * Offender Risk and Need Assessment (chapter in The Wiley International Handbook of Correctional Psychology) (Olver et al., 2019)

Option 2

 * Malingering
 * Malingering already has its own article on Wikipedia, but it is very short and doesn't include anything about malingering in a forensic context or the tools forensic psychologists have for detecting malingering. I think it would be helpful to update this page with that information. Most of the information currently on the page seems to be about the history of malingering and examples of people who have been found to be malingering. There is not a lot about the reasons why people malinger or how malingering is identified. There is also a section on "Feigning incompetence" in the Competency evaluation (law) article, but it is a single sentence long, so it could definitely be expanded.
 * Sources:
 * A Meta-Analysis of the Miller Forensic Assessment of Symptoms Test (M-FAST) (Detullio et al., 2019)
 * The Effectiveness of the MMPI-2-RF in Detecting Feigned Mental Disorders and Cognitive Deficits: a Meta-Analysis (Sharf et al., 2017)
 * Fundamentals of Forensic Practice: Mental Health and Criminal Law (Rogers & Shuman, 2005)
 * DSM-5® and the Law: Changes and Challenges (Scott, 2015)
 * Fundamentals of Forensic Practice: Mental Health and Criminal Law (Rogers & Shuman, 2005)
 * DSM-5® and the Law: Changes and Challenges (Scott, 2015)

Option 3

 * Competency to Consent to Research
 * There is nothing about competency to consent to research in the main Competence article on Wikipedia, which says that "Competence may refer to: competence (geology)..., competence (human resources)..., competence (law)..., competency evaluation (law)..., jurisdiction..., subsidiarity..., natural competence (biology)..., communicative competence..., and linguistic competence." The Competence (law) and Competency evaluation (law) articles do not say anything about competence to consent to research, so this information could be added there. There is a very short section on "Competency of the patient" in the Informed consent article on Wikipedia, but it is in the "Medical procedures" section. In the "Consent to research" section, it does not say anything about competency.
 * Sources:
 * Psychological Evaluations for the Courts: A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals and Lawyers, 4th ed. (Melton et al., 2018)
 * A History and Theory of Informed Consent (Faden et al., 1986)
 * Competency and Vulnerability in Biomedical Research (Bielby, 2008)
 * Handbook of Research Ethics in Psychological Science (Panicker & Stanley, 2021)
 * Competency and Vulnerability in Biomedical Research (Bielby, 2008)
 * Handbook of Research Ethics in Psychological Science (Panicker & Stanley, 2021)

Option 4

 * List of criminal competencies
 * This is an existing list on Wikipedia, but it only has one source, and it lists the various competencies with the court case that helped to establish them and nothing else. I think that adding some additional sources and some definitions to this page would make it a more useful resource.
 * Sources:
 * Psychological Evaluations for the Courts: A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals and Lawyers, 4th ed. (Melton, et al., 2018)
 * Criminal Competencies (chapter in Landmark Cases in Forensic Psychiatry) (Grover, 2014)
 * DSM-5: Competencies and the Criminal Justice System (chapter in DSM-5® and the Law: Changes and Challenges) (Scott, 2015)
 * Mental Disorder and Criminal Law: Responsibility, Punishment and Competence (Schopp et al., 2008)
 * DSM-5: Competencies and the Criminal Justice System (chapter in DSM-5® and the Law: Changes and Challenges) (Scott, 2015)
 * Mental Disorder and Criminal Law: Responsibility, Punishment and Competence (Schopp et al., 2008)

Option 5

 * Psychological autopsy
 * This is an existing section of the article on Forensic psychology on Wikipedia. However, despite being a fairly long section, this section has very few sources (only two, to be exact), and therefore, it makes a lot of claims without citing a source. It also seems to presented a skewed view of psychological autopsies as extremely reliable and effective -- although there is a small section on disadvantages, there are no sources cited in this paragraph, and it is followed immediately be the (uncited) sentence, "The psychological autopsy is one of the most effective tools in death investigations," which kind of undermines the concerns that are raised in the preceding paragraph. I think that this section could use some serious revision.
 * Sources:
 * Suicidal risk factors and completed suicide: Meta-analyses based on psychological autopsy studies (Yoshimasu et al., 2008)
 * Multidisciplinary Medico-Legal Death Investigation: Role of Consultants (Sathyavagiswaran & Rogers, 2018)
 * Forensic Psychiatry and Forensic Psychology: Psychological Autopsy (chapter in Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine) (Hanafy & Marc, 2015)
 * Psychological Autopsies (chapter in Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences) (Bullis, 2013)
 * Forensic Psychiatry and Forensic Psychology: Psychological Autopsy (chapter in Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine) (Hanafy & Marc, 2015)
 * Psychological Autopsies (chapter in Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences) (Bullis, 2013)