
How evaluating criminal responsibility in court works (extended interview)
Published: August 23, 2026
Duration: 7:49
How do experts determine whether someone is or isn't criminally responsible for their actions? In this "The Lindsay Clancy Trial: Commonwealth Confidential" extended interview, Dr. Stephanie Hansen, a forensic psychologist and expert on conducting those evaluations, including at Tewksbury Hospital, shares her experience, her thoughts on the relationship between analyst and subject, how psychosis and postpartum psychosis affect people and more. You can watch the TV version of this episode — and all the others, as
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