Comparison of neuropsychological test performance in forensic and nonforensic populations

Abstract

The present study compared neuropsychological test performance in a forensic population with data from several community-based normative samples. Means and standard deviations for 225 incarcerated male felons were obtained for 39 neuropsychological measures. Using a series of one-sample, two-tailed t tests, the total forensic sample was found to perform significantly worse (p