Barnum R
Boston Juvenile Court Clinic, MA.
Bull Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 1990;18(4):413-27.
Clinical evaluation of alleged juvenile delinquents regarding possible transfer to adult court must be conducted before adjudication of the facts of the case. This requirement leads to problems for the juvenile court and for the psychiatric consultant in managing certain potentially incriminating information that the defendant may reveal in the evaluation process. Both explicity self-incriminating information, and also denial of involvement in the alleged offense, present problems in this regard. Explorations of procedural protections for dealing with explicity self-incriminating information, and of the clinical and forensic problems in interpreting defendants' denial of culpability in these circumstances, do not yield fully satisfying answers to the problems. The author suggests some procedural compromises, and discusses the dilemma at the boundary of juvenile court jurisdiction that underlies these problems.
对于涉嫌青少年犯罪者是否可能转至成人法庭的临床评估，必须在对案件事实进行裁决之前进行。这一要求给少年法庭以及精神病学顾问在处理被告在评估过程中可能透露的某些潜在罪证信息时带来了问题。无论是明确的自我 incriminating 信息，还是对涉嫌犯罪的否认，在这方面都存在问题。对处理明确的自我 incriminating 信息的程序保护，以及在这些情况下解释被告否认有罪的临床和法医问题的探讨，并未完全令人满意地解决这些问题。作者提出了一些程序上的妥协，并讨论了这些问题背后少年法庭管辖权边界上的困境。
需注意，原文中“ incriminating ”可能有误，推测应为“ incriminating ”，意为“显示有罪的；牵连的” 。修改后准确译文如下：
对于涉嫌青少年犯罪者是否可能转至成人法庭的临床评估，必须在对案件事实进行裁决之前进行。这一要求给少年法庭以及精神病学顾问在处理被告在评估过程中可能透露的某些潜在罪证信息时带来了问题。无论是明确的自我归罪信息，还是对涉嫌犯罪的否认，在这方面都存在问题。对处理明确的自我归罪信息的程序保护，以及在这些情况下解释被告否认有罪的临床和法医问题的探讨，并未完全令人满意地解决这些问题。作者提出了一些程序上的妥协，并讨论了这些问题背后少年法庭管辖权边界上存在的困境。
