Assessing Competence

Forum #5: Central to this week’s readings Scott and Steinberg present evident that most adolescents fail to meet the criteria of being competent under the due process requirements of the law. They propose that in order to avoid many adolescents being found incompetent to stand trial, dual standards need to be applied between the juvenile and adult system. Discuss your position on this suggestion. Provide examples of potential problems that you feel the system might encounter when applying this dual system of assessing competence.

Learning Objectives: Evaluate the effectiveness of current rehabilitation models.

Instructions: Each students answer to the question should be between 750-1000 words. A minimum of three APA 6th edition citations and references need to be used in the development of your answer.