Review of the Inventory of Legal Knowledge
Date:
Jul 8 2011
The Inventory of Legal Knowledge (ILK) is a new instrument designed to assess feigning in the context of a competency-to-stand-trial evaluation. The test’s development, rationale, user-friendliness, and implementation are discussed and critically reviewed. Several shortcomings in the validity evidence are revealed, suggesting the ILK’s ability to discriminate malingerers from those actually incompetent may be much less impressive than implied in the manual. The recommended cutoff score of 47 produces unacceptable levels of false positives among defendants classified as actually incompetent and should not be used. The full article can be found by clicking on the link below:
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