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The Millon Clinical Inventories, Research Critical of Their Forensic Application, and Daubert Criteria

The Millon Clinical Inventories, Research Critical of Their Forensic Application, and Daubert... Law and Human Behavior, Vol. 24, No. 4, 2000 The Millon Clinical Inventories, Research Critical of Their Forensic Application, and Daubert Criteria 1 2 Frank J. Dyer and Joseph T. McCann THE ROGERS ET AL. CRITIQUE In their recent article criticizing forensic use of the Millon inventories under the criteria for scientific evidence articulated in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals (1993), Rogers, Salekin, & Sewell (1999) assert that the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-II (MCMI-II) is fit only for circumscribed use and that the MCMI-III should not be used at all in such settings because of poor convergent and discriminant validity. Rogers et al. list a number of additional complaints, including the fact that neither the MCMI-II nor MCMI-III has been validated against specific legal criteria such as legal insanity or competence to proceed to trial, that the MCMI-II was validated against DSM-III-R criteria rather than DSM-IV criteria for personality disorders, and that the MCMI-III test manual did not sufficiently describe procedures used in determining content validity against DSM-IV. In this paper we respond to the issues raised by Rogers et al. (1999) in their analysis of forensic applications and admissibility of the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory under Daubert criteria. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Law and Human Behavior American Psychological Association

The Millon Clinical Inventories, Research Critical of Their Forensic Application, and Daubert Criteria

Dyer, Frank J.; McCann, Joseph T.
Law and Human Behavior , Volume 24 (4): 11 – Aug 1, 2000
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Law and Human Behavior, Vol. 24, No. 4, 2000 The Millon Clinical Inventories, Research Critical of Their Forensic Application, and Daubert Criteria 1 2 Frank J. Dyer and Joseph T. McCann THE ROGERS ET AL. CRITIQUE In their recent article criticizing forensic use of the Millon inventories under the criteria for scientific evidence articulated in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals (1993), Rogers, Salekin, & Sewell (1999) assert that the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-II (MCMI-II) is fit only for circumscribed use and that the MCMI-III should not be used at all in such settings because of poor convergent and discriminant validity. Rogers et al. list a number of additional complaints, including the fact that neither the MCMI-II nor MCMI-III has been validated against specific legal criteria such as legal insanity or competence to proceed to trial, that the MCMI-II was validated against DSM-III-R criteria rather than DSM-IV criteria for personality disorders, and that the MCMI-III test manual did not sufficiently describe procedures used in determining content validity against DSM-IV. In this paper we respond to the issues raised by Rogers et al. (1999) in their analysis of forensic applications and admissibility of the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory under Daubert criteria.

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