TABLE 9. Model Criteria for the Assessment of Malingered Psychosis in Defendants Pleading Insanity.

Malingering should be suspected if any of the following are present
1. A nonpsychotic, alternative rational motive for the crime
2. Suspect hallucinations or delusions (see Resnick & Knoll, 2007)
3. Current offense fits a pattern of prior criminal conduct
4. Absence of active or negative symptoms of psychosis during evaluation
5. Report of a sudden, irresistible impulse
6. Presence of a partner in the crime
7. "Double denial" of responsibility (disavowal of crime + attribution to psychosis)
8. Far-fetched story of psychosis to explain crime
9. Alleged intellectual deficit coupled with alleged psychosis