Limiting the Insanity Defense
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Law
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 412
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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Law
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 412
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard Moran
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 204
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ingo Keilitz
Publisher: Institute
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 104
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles L. Scott
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0199368465
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Author: Norval Morris
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780226539072
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the criminal responsibility of the mentally ill, looks at involuntary conduct, and argues that mental illness should affect sentencing, but not determine guilt or innocence
Author: Paul S. Appelbaum
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780195068801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDoubts about the reality of mental illness and the benefits of psychiatric treatment helped foment a revolution in the law's attitude toward mental disorders over the last 25 years. Legal reformers pushed for laws to make it more difficult to hospitalize and treat people with mental illness, and easier to punish them when they committed criminal acts. Advocates of reform promised vast changes in how our society deals with the mentally ill; opponents warily predicted chaos and mass suffering. Now, with the tide of reform ebbing, Paul Appelbaum examines what these changes have wrought. The message emerging from his careful review is a surprising one: less has changed than almost anyone predicted. When the law gets in the way of commonsense beliefs about the need to treat serious mental illness, it is often put aside. Judges, lawyers, mental health professionals, family members, and the general public collaborate in fashioning an extra-legal process to accomplish what they think is fair for persons with mental illness. Appelbaum demonstrates this thesis in analyses of four of the most important reforms in mental health law over the past two decades: involuntary hospitalization, liability of professionals for violent acts committed by their patients, the right to refuse treatment, and the insanity defense. This timely and important work will inform and enlighten the debate about mental health law and its implications and consequences. The book will be essential for psychiatrists and other mental health professionals, lawyers, and all those concerned with our policies toward people with mental illness.
Author: Lincoln Caplan
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 152
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, published in 1984, tells of the insanity defense in English and American law and of the trial of John Hinckley, Jr., in 1982 for the shooting of Reagan and three others on 30 Mar 1981. Recounts the proceedings of Hinckley's trial for the attempted assassination of President Reagan, traces the history of the insanity plea, and argues for the continued use of that defense.
Author: Reid Griffith Fontaine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-01-31
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0521513766
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the excusing nature of traditional and non-traditional criminal law defenses and questions the structure of these based on scientific findings.
Author: Sofia Moratti
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-10-20
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 1509902325
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis landmark publication offers a unique comparative and interdisciplinary study of criminal insanity and neuroscience. Criminal law theories and ideologies which underpin the regulation of criminal insanity have always been the subject of controversy. The history of criminal insanity is characterised by conceptual and empirical tension between two disciplinary realms: the law and the mind sciences. The authors in this anthology explore in depth the state of the art of legal insanity and the numerous intricate, fascinating, pioneering and sophisticated questions raised by the integration of different criminal law and behaviour theories, diverse disciplines and methodologies, in a genuinely interdisciplinary perspective. This volume will serve as a practical guide for the comparative legal scholar and the judge, as well as stimulating scholarly reading for the neuroscientist, the social scientist and the philosopher with interdisciplinary scientific interests.
Author: C. V. Haldipur
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-01-24
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 0192543229
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThomas Szasz wrote over thirty books and several hundred articles, replete with mordant criticism of psychiatry, in both scientific and popular periodicals. His works made him arguably one of the world's most recognized psychiatrists, albeit one of the most controversial. These writings have been translated into several languages and have earned him a worldwide following. Szasz was a man of towering intellect, sweeping historical knowledge, and deep-rooted, mostly libertarian, philosophical beliefs. He wrote with a lucid and acerbic wit, but usually in a way that is accessible to general readers. His books cautioned against the indiscriminate power of psychiatry in courts and in society, and against the apparent rush to medicalize all human folly. They have spawned an eponymous ideology that has influenced, to various degrees, laws relating to mental health in several countries and states. This book critically examines the legacy of Thomas Szasz - a man who challenged the very concept of mental illness and questioned several practices of psychiatrists. The book surveys his many contributions including those in psychoanalysis, which are very often overlooked by his critics. While admiring his seminal contribution to the debate, the book will also point to some of his assertions that merit closer scrutiny. Contributors to the book are drawn from various disciplines, including Psychiatry, Philosophy and Law; and are from various countries including the United States, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Some contributors knew Thomas Szasz personally and spent many hours with him discussing issues he raised in his books and articles. The book will be fascinating reading for anyone interested in matters of mental health, human rights, and ethics.