Daniel P. Greenfield

Evaluating Adult Miranda Waiver Competency

The landmark Miranda decision established an explicit set of warnings that a criminal suspect must understand to insure that his statement to the police was knowing, intelligent, and voluntary. Mental health experts are routinely used to assist both prosecution and defense in determining whether the suspects understanding of the Miranda warnings was sufficient to allow his statement into evidence. This article delineates issues and procedures to assist the evaluator in conducting such evaluations.

Cognitive/Behavioral Approaches to the Treatment Adult Sex Offenders

This article presents an overview of psychotherapeutic treatment modalities of adult sex offenders. It considers recent developments in treatment methods; discusses methods of measuring therapeutic change; presents a discussion of evaluation and outcome studies of these modalities.