Forensic mental health assessments in death penalty cases
By: David DeMatteo... [et al.].
Publisher: Oxford university press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 447
ISBN-13: 9780195385809
Subjects: Peine de mort; Psychiatrie le gale
Notes: Bibliogr. p. 413-434.
Table of contents: title: Overview of forensic mental health assessments in death penalty cases ; Death penalty litigation ; Death penalty jurisprudence ; Ethical considerations in death penalty assessments ; Eligibility for the death penalty : part 1 : Atkins-type evaluations ; Eligibility for the death penalty : part 2 : competence for execution evaluations ; Evaluations addressing mitigation in capital sentencing ; Evaluations of violence risk in capital sentencing ; Principles of forensic mental health assessment in death penalty cases ; Sample reports.