Criminal mental health and disability law, evidence and testimony
Subtitle: a comprehensive reference manual for lawyers, judges, and criminal justice professionals
By: John Parry.
Contributors: American Bar Association. Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law.
Publisher: Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law, American Bar Association; American Bar Association
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9781604423419
Subjects: Insanity (Law) -- United States; Mentally ill offenders -- United States; Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- United States; People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States; Criminal liability -- United States
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: A legal history of mental health and disability in the criminal justice system; title: Mental health and disability law; title: Criminal incompetency; title: Insanity and diminished culpability; title: Dangerousness in the criminal law; title: Jails, prisons, and secure "treatment" facilities : conditions of confinement and release; title: Admissibility of expert evidence and testimony; title: Mental health diagnoses and assessments; title: Criminal incompetency; title: Insanity and diminished culpability; title: Dangerousness to others and self; title: Care and treatment of inmates; title: Disability discrimination involving inmates in corrections facilities.