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Court-ordered Insanity

Author : James A. Holstein
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780202304496
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Court-ordered Insanity written by James A. Holstein and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In preparation for his new study, Dr. Holstein observed several hundred commitment hearings in five widely separated jurisdictions. He then undertook a description of the interpretive practice under which the courts determined whether or not "candidate patients" should be committed against their will to institutions for the mentally ill. He has approached these hearings as a conversational analyst, examining the interaction among judges, lawyers, psychiatrists, and the patients themselves. He argues that decisions to commit are products of those conversations, that the ways in which patients are identified and responded to as concrete instances of "deviance" or "social problems" are constituted through such dialogue. (The book appends some useful transcripts of the actual hearings to illustrate its points.). Holstein's book is also concerned with social organization and culture. He shows how legal interpretation at these hearings takes place within socially organized circumstances, and consequently is responsive to diverse contextual factors, fraught with collective representations and cultural images that serve as further interpretive resources for participants. Court-Ordered Insanity addresses some serious questions: How do competence and incompetence emerge through the hearings? How do considerations about the patient's social status figure into the discussions? How do the actors' assumptions about mental illness shape what occurs? Thanks in part to the clarity and force of Holstein's presentation, the reader comes to recognize that much of the earlier sociological work on mental illness may have focused on the wrong issues.

Court-Ordered Insanity

Author : James A. Holstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783110139990
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Court-Ordered Insanity written by James A. Holstein and published by . This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Court-Ordered Insanity

Author : James A. Holstein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000159795
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Court-Ordered Insanity written by James A. Holstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, about involuntary commitment proceedings, focuses on interpretive practice at the nexus of legal, psychiatric, and practical reasoning. It describes the interactional dynamics through which legally and psychiatrically warranted decisions are publicly argued, negotiated, and justified.

Insanity

Author : Charles Patrick Ewing
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198043694
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Insanity written by Charles Patrick Ewing and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-07 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The insanity defense is one of the oldest fixtures of the Anglo-American legal tradition. Though it is available to people charged with virtually any crime, and is often employed without controversy, homicide defendants who raise the insanity defense are often viewed by the public and even the legal system as trying to get away with murder. Often it seems that legal result of an insanity defense is unpredictable, and is determined not by the defendants mental state, but by their lawyers and psychologists influence. From the thousands of murder cases in which defendants have claimed insanity, Doctor Ewing has chosen ten of the most influential and widely varied. Some were successful in their insanity plea, while others were rejected. Some of the defendants remain household names years after the fact, like Jack Ruby, while others were never nationally publicized. Regardless of the circumstances, each case considered here was extremely controversial, hotly contested, and relied heavily on lengthy testimony by expert psychologists and psychiatrists. Several of them played a major role in shaping the criminal justice system as we know it today. In this book, Ewing skillfully conveys the psychological and legal drama of each case, while providing important and fresh professional insights. For the legal or psychological professional, as well as the interested reader, Insanity will take you into the minds of some of the most incomprehensible murderers of our age.

Insanity Inside Out

Author : Kenneth Donaldson
Publisher : Crown Publishing Group (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Insanity Inside Out written by Kenneth Donaldson and published by Crown Publishing Group (NY). This book was released on 1976 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First person account.

The Insanity Defense

Author : Richard Moran
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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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:

After Her Brain Broke

Author : Susan Inman
Publisher : Bridgeross Communications
ISBN 13 : 0981003788
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book After Her Brain Broke written by Susan Inman and published by Bridgeross Communications. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With an introduction by Sen. Michael Kirby, Chair, Mental Health Commission of Canada"--Cover.

DSM-5 and the Law

Author : Charles L. Scott
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199368465
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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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.

Principles and Practice of Forensic Psychiatry

Author : Richard Rosner
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482262290
Total Pages : 1097 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book Principles and Practice of Forensic Psychiatry written by Richard Rosner and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 1097 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third edition of this award-winning textbook has been revised and thoroughly updated. Building on the success of the previous editions, it continues to address the history and practice of forensic psychiatry, legal regulation of the practice of psychiatry, forensic evaluation and treatment, psychiatry in relation to civil law, criminal law and family law, as well as correctional forensic psychiatry. New chapters address changes in the assessment and treatment of aggression and violence as well as psychological and neuroimaging assessments.

Disorder in the Court

Author : Andrea L. Alden
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817319727
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Disorder in the Court written by Andrea L. Alden and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Insanity Plea

Author : William J. Winslade
Publisher : Scribner Book Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Insanity Plea written by William J. Winslade and published by Scribner Book Company. This book was released on 1983 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two experts on law and psychiatry examine the insanity defense and the role of the psychiatrist in the court- room, reviewing seven cases of murder and attempted mur- der, and offer recommedations for change.

Insanity Defense

Author : Jane Harman
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250758785
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Insanity Defense written by Jane Harman and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insider's account of America's ineffectual approach to some of the hardest defense and intelligence issues in the three decades since the Cold War ended. Insanity can be defined as doing the same thing over and over again but expecting a different result. As a nation, America has cycled through the same defense and intelligence issues since the end of the Cold War. In Insanity Defense, Congresswoman Jane Harman chronicles how four administrations have failed to confront some of the toughest national security policy issues and suggests achievable fixes that can move us toward a safer future. The reasons for these inadequacies are varied and complex, in some cases going back generations. American leaders didn’t realize soon enough that the institutions and habits formed during the Cold War were no longer effective in an increasingly multi-power world transformed by digital technology and riven by ethno-sectarian conflict. Nations freed from the fear of the Soviets no longer deferred to America as before. Yet the United States settled into a comfortable, at times arrogant, position as the lone superpower. At the same time our governing institutions, which had stayed resilient, however imperfectly, through multiple crises, began their own unraveling. Congresswoman Harman was there—as witness, legislator, exhorter, enabler, dissident and, eventually, outside advisor and commentator. Insanity Defense is an insider’s account of decades of American national security—of its failures and omissions—and a roadmap to making significant progress on solving these perennially difficult issues.

Social Problems

Author : Donileen Loseke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135148978X
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Social Problems written by Donileen Loseke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of focused essays is directed at several levels of students of social problems. It is accessible to the uninitiated, who are not familiar with the constructionist literature, and aimed at those who are not particularly interested in subtle theoretical and empirical issues of concern to academics studying social problems from constructionist perspectives. Some readings focus on the construction of problems by scientists and other professionals; others examine the work of social activists, mass media, and social service personnel. Among the topics included are studies of social inequalities and individual deviance; a comparison of the images of social problems in the United States with those in other countries; and an examination of the importance of politics and power in constructing public images of social problems.Constructionist perspectives have become the leading theoretical approach for sociology and allied fields in studying social problems. Yet constructionists' impact on the teaching of social problems has been far less dramatic. Undergraduate courses on social problems are often subject to a theoretical barrage of eclectic perspectives. Just as the first social problems textbooks did almost a century ago, textbooks continue to present a series of unrelated chapters, each devoted to a particular social problem. Social Problems is an effort at systematic analysis rather than random thought on the subject.Social Problems presents detailed case studies demonstrating how constructionist perspectives can actually be applied to understand particular social problems. While these articles can be read alone, the editors have organized these selections to correspond with the chapter topics in the second edition of Donileen Loseke's Thinking about Social Problems, an accessible introduction to constructionist approaches. At the same time, some instructors who use this edited collection might wish to provide th

Guilty by Reason of Insanity

Author : Dorothy Otnow Lewis, Ph.D.
Publisher : Ivy Books
ISBN 13 : 0307556557
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Guilty by Reason of Insanity written by Dorothy Otnow Lewis, Ph.D. and published by Ivy Books. This book was released on 2009-02-04 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A psychiatrist and an internationally recognized expert on violence, Dorothy Otnow Lewis has spent the last quarter century studying the minds of killers. Among the notorious murderers she has examined are Ted Bundy, Arthur Shawcross, and Mark David Chapman, the man who shot John Lennon. Now she shares her groundbreaking discoveries--and the chilling encounters that led to them. From a juvenile court in Connecticut to the psychiatric wards of New York City's Bellevue Hospital, from maximum security prisons to the corridors of death row, Lewis and her colleague, the eminent neurologist Jonathan Pincus, search to understand the origins of violence. GUILTY BY REASON OF INSANITY is an utterly absorbing odyssey that will forever change the way you think about crime, punishment, and the law itself.

The Jury and the Defense of Insanity

Author : Rita James Simon
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412827065
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book The Jury and the Defense of Insanity written by Rita James Simon and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years after it was first published, the issues raised in The Jury and the Defense of Insanity remain pertinent. Rita James Simon examines how motivated and competent juries are, how well jurors understand and follow judges' instructions, their understand-ing of expert testimony, and the extent to which their own backgrounds and experiences influence their decisions. Simon provides a rare opportunity to observe how jurors go about the process of deliberating and reaching a verdict by following them into the jury room and recording their deliberations. This pathbreaking study of jury room behavior provides compelling evidence of the effectiveness of our trial by jury system. The Jury and the Defense of Insanity was the product of an experimental study con-ducted as part of the University of Chicago Jury Project. Over 1,000 jurors were chosen to participate, not as volunteers, but as part of their regular jury duty, in two experimental trials, one on a charge of housebreaking, the other of incest. In each the insanity de-fense was raised. Court judges instructed the jurors to consider the recorded trials they were about to hear with all the care and seriousness they would give to a real criminal prosecution, and the taped recordings of their deliberations make it clear that they did just that. These recordings, along with responses to detailed questionnaires, yielded significant data, equally applicable to civil as to criminal cases. We learn their reactions to their fellow jurors; personal evaluations of the quality and effectiveness of delibera-tions; the degree to which religion, sex, social status, education, and like factors affect participation in and influence on the course of the deliberation; and the recounting of and reliance upon personal experience in seeking to reach a verdict, among other in-sights furnished by this study. This is an exact record--not a description or recollected account--of the struggle of a jury to weigh evidence and achieve a just verdict. For lawyers whose job it is to win civil and criminal cases, for behavioral scientists who study male and female reactions in their cultural environment to the circumstances that confront them, and to all who are interested in how people behave and why, in a dramatic, socially significant situation, this is a fascinating and revealing book.

Make Mad the Guilty

Author : Richard Arens
Publisher : Springfield, Ill : C. C. Thomas
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Make Mad the Guilty written by Richard Arens and published by Springfield, Ill : C. C. Thomas. This book was released on 1969 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Insanity Offense: How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens

Author : E. Fuller Torrey
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393068889
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Insanity Offense: How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens written by E. Fuller Torrey and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-06-17 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Vital for all working in the mental health field . . . . Fascinating reading for anyone." —Choice E. Fuller Torrey, the author of the definitive guides to schizophrenia and manic depression, chronicles a disastrous swing in the balance of civil rights that has resulted in numerous violent episodes and left a vulnerable population of mentally ill people homeless and victimized. Interweaving in-depth accounts of landmark cases in California, Wisconsin, and North Carolina with a history of legislation and changes in the mental health care system, Torrey gives shape to the magnitude of our failure and outlines what needs to be done to reverse this ongoing—and accelerating—disaster. A new epilogue on the 2011 shooting in Tucson, Arizona, brings this tragic story up to date.