Assessing Competence 1 Running head: ASSESSING ADJUDICATIVE COMPETENCE Assessing Adolescent Defendants’ Adjudicative Competence: Interrater Reliability and Factor Structure of the Fitness Interview Test-Revised Jodi L. Viljoen University of Nebraska-Lincoln Gina M. Vincent University of Massachusetts Medical School Ronald Roesch Simon Fraser University Keywords: Adjudicative competence, competency to stand trial, fitness to stand trial, juvenile offenders, adolescents Viljoen, J. L., Vincent, G. M., & Roesch, R. (in press). Assessing preadolescent and adolescent defendants’ adjudicative competence: Interrater reliability and factor structure of the Fitness Interview Test. Criminal Justice and Behavior.