ASSESSING COMPETENCE
Given the information provided, what else would you want to know about Edward?
It would be important to know the competence levels of Edward to participate in the legal process as well as his mental ability to tell all the facts concerning the crime he is accused to have committed.
Whom would you want to interview for collateral contact about him and what information could they provide you to help determine competency? The appropriate person to interview about Edward’s collateral contact would be his sister. She will be in a position to provide his brother’s violent behavior since his childhoods given the parents are no more
Standards for determining competency to stand trial
Competence to stand trial also called fitness …show more content…
According to Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), under the psychoanalytic theory, the best way to understand human behavior is through the examination of the individual’s childhood experiences thus the criminality elements in a person have a linkage to guilt feelings. In the given scenario, Edward has always had the intention of hurting people from his teen years as in the case when he tried choking his younger sister and shouted at his mother that the sister should have been destroyed. In addition, Edward feels guilty for two cases, one is that he a had a feeling that at the time of his parent’s death his father was in the KGB and his mother was a witch and two is admission for not taking his psychotropic medication at the time of the alleged murders. It, therefore, means that Edward’s childhood criminal behaviors or elements played a role in his feeling …show more content…
By Edward murdering his parents, it is an indication of a developed superego resulting from his childhood experience in committing violent crimes. The Ego forms in the sense that just as any human being became enraged at the family dining room table and tried to choke his younger sister while screaming at his mother that she "should have been destroyed years ago” showing an instant gratification for a person who is
Given the information provided, what else would you want to know about Edward?
It would be important to know the competence levels of Edward to participate in the legal process as well as his mental ability to tell all the facts concerning the crime he is accused to have committed.
Whom would you want to interview for collateral contact about him and what information could they provide you to help determine competency? The appropriate person to interview about Edward’s collateral contact would be his sister. She will be in a position to provide his brother’s violent behavior since his childhoods given the parents are no more
Standards for determining competency to stand trial
Competence to stand trial also called fitness …show more content…
According to Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), under the psychoanalytic theory, the best way to understand human behavior is through the examination of the individual’s childhood experiences thus the criminality elements in a person have a linkage to guilt feelings. In the given scenario, Edward has always had the intention of hurting people from his teen years as in the case when he tried choking his younger sister and shouted at his mother that the sister should have been destroyed. In addition, Edward feels guilty for two cases, one is that he a had a feeling that at the time of his parent’s death his father was in the KGB and his mother was a witch and two is admission for not taking his psychotropic medication at the time of the alleged murders. It, therefore, means that Edward’s childhood criminal behaviors or elements played a role in his feeling …show more content…
By Edward murdering his parents, it is an indication of a developed superego resulting from his childhood experience in committing violent crimes. The Ego forms in the sense that just as any human being became enraged at the family dining room table and tried to choke his younger sister while screaming at his mother that she "should have been destroyed years ago” showing an instant gratification for a person who is