Legal decisions of preadolescent and adolescent defendants: predictors of confessions, pleas, communication with attorneys, and appeals.
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...In a sample of 114 justice-involved juveniles, Viljoen, Klaver, and Roesch (2005) found that suspects who were 15 years-old and younger, compared to those who were 16- and 17-years-old, were significantly more likely to waive their right to counsel and to confess....
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...For example, one study found that only 8 percent of defendants ages 14 and under remained silent during an interrogation ( Viljoen et al., 2005)....
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...Intraclass correlation coefficients were calculated for single raters with a two-way mixed effects model (Model 2, McGraw & Wong, 1996 ), and were as follows: .91 for CMR, .94 for CMV, .88 for NI, .93 for RC, and .92 for RS. As evidence of validity, subtests on Grisso’s Miranda Scale have been found to correlate with other subtests on this measure and with IQ estimates (Fulero & Everington, 1995; Grisso, 1998)....
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...Intraclass correlation coefficients were .91 for Understanding, .82, for Appreciation, and .83 for Communication (Model 2, McGraw & Wong, 1996 )....
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...Specifically, the rates and correlates of confessions, guilty pleas, and other legal decisions may differ across age groups as a result of cognitive and psychosocial development, as well as psychopathology, which is common among young defendants ( Teplin, Abram, McClelland, Dulcan, & Mericle, 2002; Wasserman, McReynolds, Lucas, Fisher, & Santos, 2002)....
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