Effects of the Presser and legislative criteria on classifying New Zealand's fitness to stand trial court outcomes.

New Zealand's legislation mandates the inclusion of several legislative criteria to assist in the determination of defendants' fitness to stand trial (FTST). However, the unlegislated Presser criteria have been described as useful to discriminate between defendants' fitness without formal research to identify them as such. The sample consisted of 252 defendants' FTST forensic assessments between 2005 and 2015 with a mean age of 30.