Beurteilung von Einsichts- und Steuerungsfähigkeit bei Personen mit geistiger Behinderung im Strafverfahren

Reference is made to the content determination of the entry term “mental retardation” in the criminal responsibility paragraphs of the Penal Code. The forensic relevance of intellectual disability is low. Forensic effects of retarded ability for reasoning usually fail due to the understanding in question. A diminution of criminal responsibility can if necessary be justified by a reduction in accountability.     

Prosodic awareness and punctuation ability in adult readers

We examined the relationship between two metalinguistic tasks: prosodic awareness and punctuation ability. Specifically, we investigated whether adults' ability to punctuate was related to the degree to which they are aware of and able to manipulate prosody in spoken language. English-speaking adult readers (n = 115) were administered a receptive and a productive measure of prosodic awareness, a measure of their baseline knowledge of punctuation, and a productive measure of punctuation ability, in addition to control measures. Prosodic awareness emerged as a robust predictor of adults' ability to punctuate, over and above the influence of their punctuation knowledge, reading comprehension, and working memory.