Download or read book Mental Disability Law written by Michael L. Perlin and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Human Rights and Mental Disability Law written by Michael L. Perlin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the mistreatment of persons with mental disabilities around the world, Michael Perlin identifies universal factors that contaminate mental disability law, including lack of comprehensive legislation and of independent counsel; inadequate care; poor or nonexistent community programming; and inhumane forensic systems.
Download or read book Criminal Mental Health and Disability Law Evidence and Testimony written by John Parry and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2009 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mental Disability and the Death Penalty written by Michael L. Perlin and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no question that the death penalty is disproportionately imposed in cases involving defendants with mental disabilities. There is clear, systemic bias at all stages of the prosecution and the sentencing process – in determining who is competent to be executed, in the assessment of mitigation evidence, in the ways that counsel is assigned, in the ways that jury determinations are often contaminated by stereotyped preconceptions of persons with mental disabilities, in the ways that cynical expert testimony reflects a propensity on the part of some experts to purposely distort their testimony in order to achieve desired ends. These questions are shockingly ignored at all levels of the criminal justice system, and by society in general. Here, Michael Perlin explores the relationship between mental disabilities and the death penalty and explains why and how this state of affairs has come to be, to explore why it is necessary to identify the factors that have contributed to this scandalous and shameful policy morass, to highlight the series of policy choices that need immediate remediation, and to offer some suggestions that might meaningfully ameliorate the situation. Using real cases to illustrate the ways in which the persons with mental disabilities are unable to receive fair treatment during death penalty trials, he demonstrates the depth of the problem and the way it’s been institutionalized so as to be an accepted part of our system. He calls for a new approach, and greater attention to the issues that have gone overlooked for so long.
Download or read book Civil Mental Disability Law Evidence and Testimony written by John Parry and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2010 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Disabled Persons and the Law written by Bruce D. Sales and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mental Disabilities and the Americans with Disabilities Act written by John Parry and published by Commission. This book was released on 1997 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book WHO Resource Book on Mental Health Human Rights and Legislation written by Melvyn Freeman and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2005 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication highlights key issues and principles to be considered in the drafting, adoption and implementation of mental health legislation and best practice in mental health services. It contains examples of diverse experiences and practices, as well as extracts of laws and other legal documents from a range of different countries, and a checklist of key policy components. Three main elements of effective mental health legislation are identified, relating to context, content and process.
Download or read book The Human Rights of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities written by Stanley S. Herr and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inequality: Marcia H. Rioux
Download or read book Mental Disorder Work Disability and the Law written by Richard J. Bonnie and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A barrage of "handbooks" and "resource manuals" aimed at employers and legal practitioners on the employment rights of people with disabilities has begun to appear. Until now, however, there has been no serious book-length scholarly treatment of how mental disorder can affect work, how work can affect mental disorder, and the role of law in addressing employment discrimination based on mental rather than physical disability. In Mental Disorder, Work Disability and the Law, the editors bring together original work by leading scholars who have studied mental disorder and work disability from the fields of sociology, psychology, psychiatry, law, and economics. The authors' contributions build upon one another to create the first integrated account of the important policy issues at stake when law deals with the rights of mentally disordered citizens to work when they are able to, and to receive benefits when they are not. This book will be of great value to scholars in law and the mental health professions and to policy makers and the administrators of disability programs.
Download or read book Mental Disability Law Evidence and Testimony written by John Parry and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2007 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book written by ABA Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law Director, John Parry, J.D. and forensic psychologist, Eric Y. Drogin, J.D., Ph.D., Manual has been formatted and written to guide lawyers, judges, law students, and forensic and other mental disability professionals through the maze of civil and criminal laws, standards, and evidentiary pitfalls, and forensic practices that characterize this area of the law. Moreover, it summarizes what empirical evidence exists to support or raise concerns about these legal standards and forensic practices when they are introduced in the courtroom.
Download or read book Psychosocial Aspects of Disability written by Irmo Marini, PhD, DSc, CRC, CLCP and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What a marvelous and amazing textbook. Drs. Marini, Glover-Graf and Millington have done a remarkable job in the design of this highly unique book, that comprehensively and very thoughtfully addresses the psychosocial aspects of the disability experience. These highly respected scholars have produced a major work that will be a central text in rehabilitation education for years to come." From the Foreword by Michael J. Leahy, Ph.D., LPC, CRC Office of Rehabilitation and Disability Studies Michigan State University "This is an excellent book, but the best parts are the stories of the disabled, which give readers insights into their struggles and triumphs." Score: 94, 4 Stars--Doody's Medical Reviews What are the differences between individuals with disabilities who flourish as opposed to those who never really adjust after a trauma? How are those born with a disability different from individuals who acquire one later in life? This is the first textbook about the psychosocial aspects of disability to provide students and practitioners of rehabilitation counseling with vivid insight into the experience of living with a disability. It features the first-person narratives of 16 people living with a variety of disabling conditions, which are integrated with sociological and societal perspectives toward disability, and strategies for counseling persons with disabilities. Using a minority model perspective to address disability, the book focuses on historical perspectives, cultural variants regarding disability, myths and misconceptions, the attitudes of special interest and occupational groups, the psychology of disability with a focus on positive psychology, and adjustments to disability by the individual and family. A wealth of counseling guidelines and useful strategies are geared specifically to individual disabilities. Key Features: Contains narratives of people living with blindness, hearing impairments, spinal cord injuries, muscular dystrophy, polio, mental illness, and other disabilities Provides counseling guidelines and strategies specifically geared toward specific disabilities, including "dos and don'ts" Includes psychological and sociological research relating to individual disabilities Discusses ongoing treatment issues and ethical dilemmas for rehabilitation counselors Presents thought-provoking discussion questions in each chapter Authored by prominent professor and researcher who became disabled as a young adult
Download or read book Hollow Promises written by Susan Stefan and published by Amer Psychological Assn. This book was released on 2002 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Stefan (an attorney with the Center for Public Representation) demonstrates the failure of the Americans with Disabilities Act in regard to the employment rights of people with mental disabilities, and examines the reasons for this failure. She then considers future possibilities, highlighting the roles of the courts, the government, and employers. Case studies are used to support the legal analysis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Download or read book Mental Disability Law Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ugly Laws written by Susan M. Schweik and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2010-08-30 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the culture of the modern West, we see ourselves as thinking subjects, defined by our conscious thought, autonomous and separate from each other and the world we survey. Current research in neurology and cognitive science shows that this picture is false. We think with our bodies, and in interaction with others, and our thought is never completed. The Fiction of a Thinkable World is a wide-ranging exploration of the meaning of this insight for our understanding of history, ethics, and politics Ambitious but never overwhelming, carrying its immense learning lightly, The Fiction of a Thinkable World shows how the Western conception of the human subject came to be formed historically, how it contrasts with that of Eastern thought, and how it provides the basic justification for the institutions of liberal capitalism. The fiction of a world separated from each of us as we are separated from each other, from which we make our choices in solitary thought, is enacted by the voter in the voting booth and the consumer at the supermarket shelf. The structure of daily experience in capitalist society reinforces the fictions of the Western intellectual tradition, stunt human creativity, and create the illusion that the capitalist order is natural and unsurpassable. Steinberg’s critique of the intellectual world of Western capitalism at the same time illuminates the paths that have been closed off in that world. It draws on Chinese ethics to show how our actions can be brought in accord with the world as it is, in its ever-changing interaction and mutual transformation, and sketches a radical political perspective that sheds the illusions of the Western model. Beautifully conceived and written, The Fiction of a Thinkable World provides new ways of thinking and opens new horizons.
Download or read book Americans with Disabilities written by Leslie Francis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking work, leading philosophers, legal theorists, bioethicists, and policy makers offer incisive looks into the philosophical and moral foundations of disability law and policy.
Download or read book The Mentally Disabled and the Law written by Samuel J. Brakel and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
