Use of the MMPI-2 in Correctional Settings(from the chapter) This chapter discusses the use of the MMPI-2 (Butcher, Dahlstrom, Graham, Tellegen, & Kaemmer, 1989) in corrections, that is, with convicted felons tested in criminal justice settings. It does not deal with forensic issues such as evaluating competency to stand trial or determining legal sanity at the time of offense. The primary focus is on areas in which the use of the MMPI-2 in corrections differs from its application in mental health and nonclinical settings. To be legally accountable, correctional assessments must be reliable and valid. Given its stature as our most widely used and thoroughly researched objective personality test, practitioners will have no difficulty justifying their use of the MMPI-2 in correctional assessment. However, accountability also requires that the interpretive principles and techniques used in correctional assessment be validated on criminal offenders tested in criminal justice settings. Correctional psychologists should base their analyses and interpretations of offenders' MMPI-2s primarily on research conducted in correctional settings and only secondarily on inferences extrapolated from free-world findings. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved)https://www.upress.umn.edu/test-division/bibliography/2000-2009/2006/megargee_use_2006https://www.upress.umn.edu/logo.png