Please discuss the significance and meaning of the following quotation in a well-formed paragraph. “A soul in this state makes its way to the invisible, which is like itself, the divine and immortal and wise, and arriving there it can be happy, having rid itself of confusion, ignorance, fear, violent desires, and the other human ills and, as is said of the initiates, truly spend the rest of time with the gods.” Phaedo 81a (Grube translation p 119)

Which of the following has occurred and reflects an increase in the attention paid to victims?

Plea bargains or settlement negotiations are the most frequent means for resolving cases.

Which of the following would be considered part of a decisional competence approach for a mental health professional evaluating adjudicative competence?

In Godinez v. Moran (1993), the Supreme Court ruled that the standard for ________________ will be used in federal courts for assessing other competence questions.

At least one study has found that juvenile court judges consider _____________ valuable information when considering competency evaluations.

Which of the following describes serial killers?

Women who have been sexually assaulted in the past or who were sexually abused as children are more likely to suffer a second sexual attack than women without prior sexual victimization.

Under the Dusky standard, the presence of mental illness or mental retardation guarantees that a defendant will be found incompetent to stand trial.

The U.S. Supreme Court, in Eddings v. Oklahoma (1982), has ruled that a trial court must consider any information that argues against a death sentence.