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Book The Insanity Defense

Download or read book The Insanity Defense written by Richard Moran and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Insanity Defense

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  • Author : Donald H. J. Hermann
  • Publisher : Charles C. Thomas Publisher
  • Release : 1983
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 206 pages

Download or read book The Insanity Defense written by Donald H. J. Hermann and published by Charles C. Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 1983 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Automatism  Insanity  and the Psychology of Criminal Responsibility

Download or read book Automatism Insanity and the Psychology of Criminal Responsibility written by Robert F. Schopp and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-07-26 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about the role that psychological impairment should play in a theory of criminal liability. Criminal guilt in the Anglo-American legal tradition requires both that the defendant committed some proscribed act and did so with intent, knowledge, or recklessness. The second requirement corresponds to the intuitive idea that people should not be punished for something they did not do "on purpose" or if they "did not realize what they were doing." Although intuitive, this underlying idea can be highly controversial in practice, especially in cases involving the insanity defense. This important new book addresses the conceptual and moral foundations of these issues. Unlike many previous works in this area, it addresses the automatism and insanity defenses by examining the types of functional impairment that typical candidates for these defenses actually suffer. What emerges is a much wider conceptual framework that allows us to understand the significance of psychological states and processes for the attribution of criminal responsibility in a manner that is logically coherent, morally defensible, and consistent with research in psychopathology.

Book Evaluation of Criminal Responsibility

Download or read book Evaluation of Criminal Responsibility written by Ira K. Packer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-16 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forensic mental health assessment (FMHA) has grown into a specialization informed by research and professional guidelines. This series presents up-to-date information on the most important and frequently conducted forms of FMHA. The 19 topical volumes address best approaches to practice for particular types of evaluation in the criminal, civil and juvenile/family areas. Each volume contains a thorough discussion of the relevant legal and psychological concepts, followed by a step-by-step description of the assessment process from preparing for the evaluation to writing the report and testifying in court. Volumes include the following helpful features: - Boxes that zero in on important information for use in evaluations - Tips for best practice and cautions against common pitfalls - Highlighting of relevant case law and statutes - Separate list of assessment tools for easy reference - Helpful glossary of key terms for the particular topic In making recommendations for best practice, authos consider empirical support, legal relevance, and consistency with ethical and professional standards. These volumes offer invaluable guidance for anyone involved in conducting or using forensic evaluations.

Book The Insanity Defense

    Book Details:
  • Author : Abraham S. Goldstein
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1967-01-28
  • ISBN : 9780300000993
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book The Insanity Defense written by Abraham S. Goldstein and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1967-01-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The insanity defense has become the most passionately debated issue in criminal law, a debate marked by slogans and stereotypes. Mr. Goldstein offers a reasoned study of that debate and the current rules behind the law, as well as a careful examination of what might be expected from any new rules now proposed.

Book The Rules of Insanity

Download or read book The Rules of Insanity written by Carl Elliott and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-07-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Rules of Insanity, Carl Elliott draws on philosophy and psychiatry to develop a conceptual framework for judging the moral responsibility of mentally ill offenders. Arguing that there is little useful that can be said about the responsibility of mentally ill offenders in general, Elliott looks at specific mental illnesses in detail; among them schizophrenia, manic-depressive disorders, psychosexual disorders such as exhibitionism and voyeurism, personality disorders, and impulse control disorders such as kleptomania and pyromania. He takes a particularly hard look at the psychopath or sociopath, who many have argued is incapable of understanding morality. Making extensive use of psychiatric case histories, Elliott explores the various ways in which mental illness can affect a person's intentions and thus excuse him or her from moral responsibility.

Book Mental Disabilities and Criminal Responsibility

Download or read book Mental Disabilities and Criminal Responsibility written by Herbert Fingarette and published by . This book was released on 1979-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Self Made Madness

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  • Author : Edward W. Mitchell
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-09-08
  • ISBN : 1351901214
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Self Made Madness written by Edward W. Mitchell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multi-disciplinary book lies in the general areas of forensic psychiatry/psychology, sociology, jurisprudence, criminal law and criminology. It questions traditional assumptions about illness and mental disorder, and deals with the controversial notion that mental disorders (and possibly other 'illnesses') may be to varying extents the fault of the 'sufferer'. It examines how the law can take into account such 'culpable' notions of mental disorder in determining criminal responsibility. This culpability for the defense-causing condition (or 'responsibility for level of criminal responsibility') is called 'meta-responsibility'. The book is divided into two parts. The first section discusses theoretical issues, such as the manner in which traditional illness models relate to meta-responsibility; the insanity defence and other mental condition defences; the relationship of clinical issues such as medication non-compliance and insight to meta-responsibility and the counterfactual notion that consideration of the possible voluntary origins of mental disorder may benefit the criminal and non-criminal mentally disordered. The second section of the book presents a case vignette experiment of mock jurors, examining the effect of a 'meta-responsibility insanity test'.

Book Insanity and Criminal Responsibility

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  • Author : American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology. Committee on Insanity and Criminal Responsibility
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1919
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 187 pages

Download or read book Insanity and Criminal Responsibility written by American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology. Committee on Insanity and Criminal Responsibility and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Meaning of Criminal Insanity

Download or read book The Meaning of Criminal Insanity written by Herbert Fingarette and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-09-23 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.

Book Manifest Madness

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  • Author : Arlie Loughnan
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2012-04-19
  • ISBN : 0199698597
  • Pages : 307 pages

Download or read book Manifest Madness written by Arlie Loughnan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together previously disparate discussions on criminal responsibility from law, psychology, and philosophy, this book provides a close study of mental incapacity defences, tracing their development through historical cases to the modern era.

Book Legal Insanity  Explorations in Psychiatry  Law  and Ethics

Download or read book Legal Insanity Explorations in Psychiatry Law and Ethics written by Gerben Meynen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines core issues related to legal insanity, integrating perspectives from psychiatry, law, and ethics. Various criteria for insanity are analyzed and recommendations for forensic psychiatric and legal practice are offered. Many legal systems have an insanity defense, in one form or another. Still, it remains unclear exactly when and why mental disorders affect a person’s moral or criminal responsibility. Questions addressed in this book include: Why should insanity be a component of our legal system? What should be the criteria for an insanity defense? What would be the reasons for abolishing it? Who should bear the burden of proof? Furthermore, the book discusses the impact neurosciences may have on psychiatric and psychological evaluations of defendants as well as on legal decisions about insanity.

Book DSM 5 and the Law

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  • Author : Charles L. Scott
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 0199368465
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book DSM 5 and the Law written by Charles L. Scott and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resource added for the Paralegal program 101101.

Book The Insanity Defense

Download or read book The Insanity Defense written by Rudolph Joseph Gerber and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Insanity and Criminal Responsibility

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  • Author : American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology. Committee on Insanity and Criminal Responsibility
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1911
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 21 pages

Download or read book Insanity and Criminal Responsibility written by American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology. Committee on Insanity and Criminal Responsibility and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Insanity Defense the World Over

Download or read book The Insanity Defense the World Over written by Simon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008-07-02 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Defense of Insanity, The World Over is the 10th in a series of books that examines and compares social issues or social problems from an explicitly comparative perspective. This volume examines and compares the criteria and procedures surrounding the defense of insanity across twenty-two countries. In addition to the criteria for each of the countries, Simon and Ahn-Redding report the burden of proof; whether this burden is on the side of the defense or the prosecution; the degree, beyond a reasonable doubt or by a preponderance of the evidence; the form the verdict takes; who typically decides, a judge or a jury; what role experts play in the proceedings; and what happens to the defendant if he or she is found not guilty by reason of insanity. The Defense of Insanity, The World Over provides a history of the defense of insanity going as far back as ancient Greek and Roman societies including the development of the defense in modern legal codes beginning with the British criteria in 1265. This one-of-a-kind study also looks at how the defense of insanity is treated in Jewish and Islamic law. Simon and Ahn-Redding have crafted an expert study that will appeal to scholar of sociology, criminal justice, and international studies.

Book Insanity And The Criminal Law

Download or read book Insanity And The Criminal Law written by William A. White and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1981-04-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestrafung.