Mental disorder and criminal law
Subtitle: responsibility, punishment, and competence
By: Robert F. Schopp ... [et al.], editors.
Contributors: Schopp, Robert F.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780387848440; 9780387848457
Subjects: Insanity Defense; Criminal Law; Mental Competency; Insanity (Law); Capacity and disability
Description: Contributors to this important volume: Examine the effects of depression at different stages of legal procedure. Offer proposed criteria for [prohibiting] capital punishment [of] the severely mentally ill. Identify moral and procedural concerns in the use of child victims as witnesses. Analyze the balance between present responsibility and future risk. Untangle clinical and ethical issues for clinicians involved in capital sentencing. Clarify the process of psychological evaluation of competence to be executed. Review degrees of psychopathy in the context of criminal culpability. -- Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.