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Book Synopsis Anglo-American Insanity Defence Reform by : Faye Boland
Download or read book Anglo-American Insanity Defence Reform written by Faye Boland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, The book examines the magnitude of the polemic surrounding each attempt to reformulate the insanity defence in the United States, England and Ireland. The book contains a critique of the McNaghten Rules, the defence of irresistible impulse, the product test of insanity, the justly responsible test, the American Law Institute’s test of insanity and the Butler Committee’s proposed revision. At the heart of the controversy surrounding each reformulation has been a medico-legal tension over the wording of the insanity defence and whether law or psychiatry’s view of insanity should prevail. The book looks at the success of the English diminished responsibility defence in abating the controversy. The result of introducing this defence has been the emergence of the legal and medical professions from a state of cold war to entente cordiale. The book explores the reasons for the diminished responsibility defence’s success in resolving the polemic over the insanity defence.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :746 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Reform of the Federal Insanity Defense by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice
Download or read book Reform of the Federal Insanity Defense written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Legal Defence of Insanity in Anglo-American Criminal Law by : Archibald Nii Maatei Laud-Hammond
Download or read book The Legal Defence of Insanity in Anglo-American Criminal Law written by Archibald Nii Maatei Laud-Hammond and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Insanity Defense by : Abraham S. Goldstein
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 Synopsis The Insanity Defense and Its Alternatives by : Ingo Keilitz
Download or read book The Insanity Defense and Its Alternatives written by Ingo Keilitz and published by Institute. This book was released on 1984 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Before and After Hinckley by : Henry J. Steadman
Download or read book Before and After Hinckley written by Henry J. Steadman and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 1993-05-21 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The insanity acquittal of John Hinckley in June, 1982 for the attempted assassination of then President, Ronald Reagan, sparked a flurry of legislative rhetoric and public inquiry about how to stop such "abuses." State and federal legislators, buttressed by professional associations' resolutions for reform, responded with a wide array of proposals for statutory reform insanity defense. Based on six years of research--which constituted the largest study ever conducted of insanity defense pleas in the U.S.--this book describes the impact of the reforms instituted both before and after Hinckley's assassination attempt. In so doing, the volume offers the most authoritative, empirically sound answers to controversial questions about who uses the insanity defense, about its presumed abuses, and about what really happens when legislators respond to public pressure to tighten statutes.
Book Synopsis The Insanity Defense by : Richard Moran
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 Synopsis Psychiatric Aspects of Justification, Excuse and Mitigation in Anglo-American Criminal Law by : Alec Buchanan
Download or read book Psychiatric Aspects of Justification, Excuse and Mitigation in Anglo-American Criminal Law written by Alec Buchanan and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2000-07-24 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violent crimes committed by the mentally disordered attract academic and public attention. They raise issues of moral responsibility and public protection. This study systematically analyses the principles underlying those legal and medical devices which enable the courts to make special arrangements for the mentally disordered. Buchanan examines three fundamental precepts in criminal law: justification, excuse and mitigation. A defendant who has been proved guilty can usually have his or her sentence reduced only where one of these three principles applies. The way that the courts interpret notions of responsibility and choice may influence the outcome considerably. For mentally disordered offenders, the matter becomes even more complicated - this is where the psychological and psychiatric aspects of justification, excuse and mitigation come into play. The author combines a jurisprudential analysis of the above with a discussion of current legal provision for mentally disordered offenders in England and America. This thought-provoking book will be of particular interest to a wide range of professionals in the forensic field, as well as to academics specialising in mental health law and the philosophy of psychiatry.
Book Synopsis The Insanity Defense by : Grant H. Morris
Download or read book The Insanity Defense written by Grant H. Morris and published by . This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Disorder in the Court by : Andrea L. Alden
Download or read book Disorder in the Court written by Andrea L. Alden and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length rhetorical history and analysis of the insanity defense The insanity defense is considered one of the most controversial, most misunderstood, and least straightforward subjects in the American legal system. Disorder in the Court: Morality, Myth, and the Insanity Defense traces the US legal standards for the insanity defense as they have evolved from 1843, when they were first codified in England, to 1984, when the US government attempted to revise them through the Insanity Defense Reform Act. Throughout this period “insanity” existed primarily as a legal term rather than a medical one; yet the testimony of psychiatric experts is required in cases in which an insanity defense is raised. The adjudication of such cases by courtroom practice is caught between two different but overlapping discourses, the legal and the medical, both of which have historically sought to assert and maintain firm disciplinary boundaries. Both expert and lay audiences have struggled to understand and apply commonplace definitions of sanity, and the portrayal of the insanity defense in popular culture has only served to further frustrate such understandings. Andrea L. Alden argues that the problems with understanding the insanity defense are, at their foundation, rhetorical. The legal concept of what constitutes insanity and, therefore, an abdication of responsibility for one’s actions does not map neatly onto the mental health professions’ understandings of mental illness and how that affects an individual’s ability to understand or control his or her actions. Additionally, there are multiple layers of persuasion involved in any effort to convince a judge, jury—or a public, for that matter—that a defendant is or is not responsible for his or her actions at a particular moment in time. Alden examines landmark court cases such as the trial of Daniel McNaughtan, Durham v. United States, and the trial of John Hinckley Jr. that signal the major shifts in the legal definitions of the insanity defense. Combining archival, textual, and rhetorical analysis, Alden offers a close reading of texts including trial transcripts, appellate court opinions, and relevant medical literature from the time period. She contextualizes these analyses through popular texts—for example, newspaper articles and editorials—showing that while all societies have maintained some version of mental illness as a mitigating factor in their penal systems, the insanity defense has always been fraught with controversy.
Download or read book Thomas Szasz written by C. V. Haldipur and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas 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.
Book Synopsis Philosophical Presuppositions of the Defense of Insanity in Anglo-American Law by :
Download or read book Philosophical Presuppositions of the Defense of Insanity in Anglo-American Law written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Law and Mind written by Bartosz Brożek and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 1001 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are the cognitive sciences relevant for law? How do they influence legal theory and practice? Should lawyers become part-time cognitive scientists? The recent advances in the cognitive sciences have reshaped our conceptions of human decision-making and behavior. Many claim, for instance, that we can no longer view ourselves as purely rational agents equipped with free will. This change is vitally important for lawyers, who are forced to rethink the foundations of their theories and the framework of legal practice. Featuring multidisciplinary scholars from around the world, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the emerging field of law and the cognitive sciences. It develops new theories and provides often provocative insights into the relationship between the cognitive sciences and various dimensions of the law including legal philosophy and methodology, doctrinal issues, and evidence.
Book Synopsis DSM-5 and the Law by : Charles L. Scott
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 Synopsis Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing by : Phil Barker
Download or read book Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing written by Phil Barker and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of "the craft of caring" dictates that the basis of good nursing practice is a combination of both art and science, encouraging nurses to take a holistic approach to the practice of psychiatric and mental health nursing. Supported by relevant theory, research, policy, and philosophy, this volume reflects current developments in nursing practice and the understanding of mental health disorders. The book includes case studies of patients with anxiety, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder as well as victims of sexual abuse, those with an eating disorder, homeless patients, and those with dementia and autism.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :742 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (121 download)
Book Synopsis Reform of the Federal Insanity Defense by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice
Download or read book Reform of the Federal Insanity Defense written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis International Handbook on Psychopathic Disorders and the Law by : Alan R. Felthous
Download or read book International Handbook on Psychopathic Disorders and the Law written by Alan R. Felthous and published by LibreDigital. This book was released on 2007 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting the work of an international panel of experts, the International Handbook on Psychopathic Disorders and the Law offers an in-depth and multidisciplinary look at key aspects of the development and etiology of psychopathic disorders, current methods of intervention, treatment and management, and how these disorders impact decision making in civil and criminal law.
