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The Killing of Bonnie Garland

Author : Willard Gaylin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140250956
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Killing of Bonnie Garland written by Willard Gaylin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1995-09-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A powerful and passionate indictment of the use of psychiatric testimony in criminal cases." —The Cleveland Plain Dealer A year after Richard Herrin confessed to killing his girlfriend, Bonnie Garland, he was found not guilty of murder. His crime, he pleaded, was committed "under extreme emotional disturbance," excusing him from maximum responsibility. He was convicted on the reduced charge of manslaughter. In this incisive examination of the murder, the trial, and its aftermath, a distinguished psychiatrist addresses the issue of the insanity defense. He shows how psychiatric testimony can distort court proceedings, and brilliantly analyzes the conflict between the individual rights of the accused and society's right to justice.

Thinking about the Insanity Defense

Author : Ellsworth Lapham Fersch
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595344127
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Thinking about the Insanity Defense written by Ellsworth Lapham Fersch and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking About the Insanity Defense answers ninety-seven frequently asked questions and presents sixteen case examples in easily understood language. This volume provides a clear and compelling introduction to one of the most important topics in the relation between psychology and law. Compiled by members of a Harvard seminar, it directs attention to the issues most often raised by the general public and by students of social science and criminal justice. The frequently asked questions about the insanity defense address: its history and psychological aspects; the effects of different standards for determining insanity; the arguments for its retention, abolition, and revision; media and other responses to it; controversies around pre- and post-conviction commitment; and the roles of psychologists, psychiatrists, and lawyers. The case examples illustrate a variety of outcomes and include individuals who were: found not guilty by reason of insanity; found guilty even though mentally ill; and not charged because of mental illness. The extensive bibliography directs students and citizens interested in psychology, law, and criminal justice to further cases and analyses. The insanity defense is one of the most significant topics in psychoforensics. This brief and readable book is the first place to look for what most people want to know about the insanity defense.

The Culture of Crime

Author : Craig L. LaMay
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412836456
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book The Culture of Crime written by Craig L. LaMay and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no journalistic work more deserving of the designation âstoryâ than news of crime. From antiquity, the culture of crime has been about the human condition, and whether information comes from Homer, Hollywood, or the city desk, it is a bottom about the human capacity for cruelty and suffering, about desperation and fear, about sex, race, and public morals. Facts are important to the telling of a crime story, but ultimately less so than the often apocryphal narratives we derive from them. The Culture of Crime is hence about the most common and least studies staple of news. Its prominence dates at least to the 1830s, when the urban penny press employed violence, sex, and scandal to build dizzying high levels of circulation and begin the modern age of mass media. In its coverage of crime, in particular, the popular press represented a new kind of journalism, if not a new definition of news, that made available for public consumption whole areas of social and private life that the mercantile, elite, and political press earlier ignored. This legacy has continued unabated for 150 years. The book explores new wrinkles in the study of crime and as a mass cultural activityâfrom exploring the private lives of public officials to dangers posed by constraints to a free press. The volume is prepared with the rigor of a scholarly brief but also the excitement of actual crime stories as such. Throughout, the reader is reminded that crime stories are both news and drama, and to ignore either is to diminish the other. The work delves deeply into current problems without either sentimental or trivial pursuits. It will be a volume of great interest to people in communications research, the social sciences, criminologists, and not least, the broad public which must endure the punishment of crime and the thrill of the crime story alike.

Fraternity Gang Rape

Author : Peggy Reeves Sanday
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814741207
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Fraternity Gang Rape written by Peggy Reeves Sanday and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This widely acclaimed and meticulously documented volume illustrates, in painstaking and disturbing detail, the nature of fraternity gang rape. Drawing on interviews with both victims and fraternity members, Peggy Reeves Sanday reconstructs daily life in the fraternity, highlighting the role played by pornography, male bonding, and degrading, often grotesque, initiation and hazing rituals. In a substantial new introduction and afterword, Sanday updates the incidences of fraternity gang rape on college campuses today, highlighting such recent cases as that of Duke University and others in the headlines. Sanday also explores the nature of hazing at sororities on campus and how Greek life in general contributes to a culture which promotes the exploitation and sexual degradation of women on campus. More broadly, Sanday examines the nature of campus life today and the possibility of creating a rape-free campus culture.

Arbitrary and Capricious

Author : Michael A. Foley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313057117
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Arbitrary and Capricious written by Michael A. Foley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-06-30 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justice Marshall once remarked that if people knew what he knew about the death penalty, they would reject it overwhelmingly. Foley elucidates Marshall's claim that fundamental flaws exist in the implementation of the death penalty. He guides us through the history of the Supreme Court's death penalty decisions, revealing a constitutional quagmire the Court must navigate to avoid violating the fundamental tenant of equal justice for all. Nearly 100 influential Supreme Court capital punishment-related cases from 1878-2002 are examined, beginning with Wilkerson v. Utah, which question not the legitimacy of capital punishment, but the methods of execution. Over time, focus shifted from the constitutionality of certain methods to the fairness of who was being sentenced for capital crimes—and why. The watershed 1972 ruling Furman v. Georgia reversed the Court's stand on capital punishment, holding that the arbitrary and capricious imposition of the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment, and therefore unconstitutional. Furman clarified that any new death penalty legislation must contain sentencing procedures that avoid the arbitrary infliction of a life-ending verdict, which led to the current complex tangle of issues surrounding the death penalty and its constitutional viability.

Law and Literature

Author : Richard A. Posner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674032460
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (324 download)

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Download or read book Law and Literature written by Richard A. Posner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First edition published in 1988 : Law and literature : a misunderstood relation ; revised and enlarged edition published in 1998.

Psychiatry in Law / Law in Psychiatry, Second Edition

Author : Ralph Slovenko
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1135846049
Total Pages : 817 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Psychiatry in Law / Law in Psychiatry, Second Edition written by Ralph Slovenko and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2009-03-03 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychiatry in Law/Law in Psychiatry, 2nd Edition, is a sweeping, up-to-date examination of the infiltration of psychiatry into law and the growing intervention of law into psychiatry. Unmatched in breadth and coverage, and thoroughly updated from the first edition, this comprehensive text and reference is an essential resource for psychiatry residents, law students, and practitioners alike.

America on Trial

Author : Alan M. Dershowitz
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0759511039
Total Pages : 1061 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book America on Trial written by Alan M. Dershowitz and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2004-05-14 with total page 1061 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned attorney and bestselling author reveals how notable trials throughout our history have helped to shape our nation. Offering insights into the human condition, these trials serve as a historical document, chronicling the struggles and passions of their time.

Popular Crime

Author : Bill James
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 141655274X
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Popular Crime written by Bill James and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: 2011. With new addendum.

ABA Journal

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book ABA Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1982-12 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ABA Journal serves the legal profession. Qualified recipients are lawyers and judges, law students, law librarians and associate members of the American Bar Association.

More Than Victims

Author : Donald Alexander Downs
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226161600
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book More Than Victims written by Donald Alexander Downs and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-10 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald Downs offers an analysis of the injustices behind the logic of battered woman syndrome, concluding that this very logic harms those it is trying to protect. This work seeks to rethink the criminal justice system.

Strange Piece of Paradise

Author : Terri Jentz
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 142998807X
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Strange Piece of Paradise written by Terri Jentz and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1977, Terri Jentz and her Yale roommate, Shayna Weiss, make a cross-country bike trip. They pitch a tent in the desert of central Oregon. As they are sleeping, a man in a pickup truck deliberately runs over the tent. He then attacks them with an ax. The horrific crime is reported in newspapers across the country. No one is ever arrested. Both women survive, but Shayna suffers from amnesia, while Terri is left alone with memories of the attack. Their friendship is shattered. Fifteen years later, Terri returns to the small town where she was nearly murdered, on the first of many visits she will make "to solve the crime that would solve me." And she makes an extraordinary discovery: the violence of that night is as present for the community as it is for her. Slowly, her extensive interviews with the townspeople yield a terrifying revelation: many say they know who did it, and he is living freely in their midst. Terri then sets out to discover the truth about the crime and its aftermath, and to come to terms with the wounds that broke her life into a before and an after. Ultimately she finds herself face-to-face with the alleged axman. Powerful, eloquent, and paced like the most riveting of thrillers, Strange Piece of Paradise is the electrifying account of Terri's investigation into the mystery of her near murder. A startling profile of a psychopath, a sweeping reflection on violence and the myth of American individualism, and a moving record of a brave inner journey from violence to hope, this searing, unforgettable work is certain to be one of the most talked about books of the year.

Fatal Charms

Author : Dominick Dunne
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307815021
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Fatal Charms written by Dominick Dunne and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-11-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dominick Dunne has met them all--stars and slugs, criminals and victims, the innocent and the hideously guilty. From posh Park Avenue duplexes to the extravagant mansions of Beverly Hills, from tasteful London town houses to the wild excesses of million-dollar European retreats, here are the movers and shakers--and the people who pretend to be. Among colorful profiles and revealing glimpses of Elizabeth Taylor, Claus von Bülow, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Aaron Spelling, discover who dumped an heiress the night before the wedding to run off with the best man . . . what happens when the ex-husband of a movie legend becomes president . . . why a beautiful singer fell in with the mob . . . and, in Dunne's most personal story, how a lying murderer and a limelight-loving judge denied justice to his family after his daughter's life was brutally destroyed. Filled with pathos and wit, insight and sass, this candid, controversial volume gives you an extraordinary peek into the rarefied world of the rich, the royal, and the ruined. For Dunne is the man who knows all their secrets--and now those secrets are out.

True Stories of Law & Order

Author : Kevin Dwyer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780425211908
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book True Stories of Law & Order written by Kevin Dwyer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-11-07 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True Stories of Law & Order reveals the fascinating and shocking facts behind 25 of the hit show's most popular episodes - from the incredible account of how a woman's repressed memory leads to the solving of a 30-year-old cold case to the high-profile investigation of tranvestite millionaire Robert Durst. And just like in Law & Order, the actual crime is just the beginning, as you follow these cases from the initial stages of the investigation through the trial and up to the often controversial verdicts. Part of the reason millions of fans tune in to Law & Order is the gritty realism of its storytelling. The monumentally popular show has included many episodes inspired by actual cases ripped from the headlines - true crimes that are often stranger and more chilling than fiction.

Placing Blame

Author : Michael S. Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199599491
Total Pages : 873 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Placing Blame written by Michael S. Moore and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 873 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of essays written by Moore which form a thorough examination of the theory of criminal responsibility. The author covers a wide range of topics, giving the book a coherence and unity which is rare in assembled essays. Perhaps the most significant feature of this book isMoore's espousal of a retributivist theory of punishment. This anti-utilitarian standpoint is a common thread throughout the book. It is also a trend which is currently manifesting itself in all areas of moral, political and legal philosophy, but Moore is one of the first to apply such attitudes sosytematically to criminal law theory. As such, this innovative, new book will be of great interest to all scholars in this field.

Psychiatry in Law/law in Psychiatry: Psychiatry in law

Author : Ralph Slovenko
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415933636
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Psychiatry in Law/law in Psychiatry: Psychiatry in law written by Ralph Slovenko and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2002 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since c. 1960 the interplay of psychiatry and law has emerged from an elective seminar to a topic of national prominence. In its breadth and coverage, Ralph Slovenko's Psychiatry and Law/Law in Psychiatry provides a critical exposition of the many practices and basic premises of law and psychiatry. It is a complete text for psychiatry residents or law students and an invaluable reference for practicing professionals in each field. New approaches for practitioners are provided as well as material to assist them in preparing and documenting their cases. Psychiatry and Law/Law in Psychiatry is rooted in Dr. Slovenko's previously published work, Psychiatry and Law (Little & Brown 1973), which received the American Psychiatric Association's prestigious Manfred Guttmacher award.

Good Murders and Bad Murders

Author : Wayne Wilson
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761804505
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Good Murders and Bad Murders written by Wayne Wilson and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1996 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No descriptive material is available for this title.