The History Of Mental Illness In Criminal Cases The English Tradition

Author : Jane Moriarty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135729332

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The History of Mental Illness in Criminal Cases: The English Tradition by Jane Moriarty Pdf

Whether the accused is competent to stand trial, whether the plaintiff is competent to accuse, or whether a witness is competent to testify has had a long legal history. Such questions draw legal reasoning into areas of ethical reflection and scientific debate deeply rooted in the moral history of the United States. Mental competence has come to play a central and controversial role in proving guilt, and in evaluating the severity of a crime and its corresponding punishment. This compendium brings together the major legal precedents and legal commentaries that have defined the role of mental illness in criminal trials throughout U.S. history. The reprint collection considers, among other issues, the evolution of the Supreme Court's position on the insanity defense and mental retardation, how these affect one's competency to stand trial or be executed, and how these affect culpability and punishment. Each volume begins with an introductory essay, and includes both cases and commentary. Scholars as well as students will find these volumes a useful research tool.

Author : Richard N. Kocsis
Publisher : Charles C Thomas Publisher
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09
Category : Criminal psychology
ISBN : 9780398092368

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Applied Criminal Psychology by Richard N. Kocsis Pdf

Applied Criminal Psychology provides the reader with a comprehensive and practical guide to psychological research and techniques. It is introductory and wide-ranging and covers important forensic aspects of psychology, psychiatry, and behavioral sciences. Many key forensic issues are covered, including personality disorders, risk assessment, the forensic psychologist as an expert witness, detecting deception, eyewitness memory, cognitive interviewing, forensic hypnosis, false confessions, criminal profiling, and crisis negotiation. With this new edition and starting with the first two chapters, significant focus has been placed upon Psychopathy and the closely associated DSM category of Anti-Social Personality Disorder. Another new chapter has also been included dedicated to the principles of law associated with an accused person's mental status. The book is international and interdisciplinary in its scope and focus. Many of the contributors to this book are well known scholars and/or practitioners. It will be of great interest to psychologists, psychiatrists, criminologists, legal professionals, law enforcement personnel and students who are planning careers in forensic psychology, criminology, and policing.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UOM:39015054173375

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Mental Health by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UIUC:30112080037846

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The Human Face of Mental Health and Mental Illness in Canada, 2006 by Anonim Pdf

The human suffering associated with mental illness is something that more than one in five Canadians face at some point in their life.

Author : Jane Campbell Moriarty
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Capacity and disability
ISBN : 0815335733

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The Role of Mental Illness in Criminal Trials: The insanity defense by Jane Campbell Moriarty Pdf

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Jane Moriarty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135729820

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Competency to be Tried, Imprisoned, and Executed by Jane Moriarty Pdf

Whether the accused is competent to stand trial, whether the plaintiff is competent to accuse, or whether a witness is competent to testify has had a long legal history. Such questions draw legal reasoning into areas of ethical reflection and scientific debate deeply rooted in the moral history of the United States. Mental competence has come to play a central and controversial role in proving guilt, and in evaluating the severity of a crime and its corresponding punishment. This compendium brings together the major legal precedents and legal commentaries that have defined the role of mental illness in criminal trials throughout U.S. history. The reprint collection considers, among other issues, the evolution of the Supreme Court's position on the insanity defense and mental retardation, how these affect one's competency to stand trial or be executed, and how these affect culpability and punishment. Each volume begins with an introductory essay, and includes both cases and commentary. Scholars as well as students will find these volumes a useful research tool.

Author : Geert Keil,Lara Keuck,Rico Hauswald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780198722373

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Vagueness in Psychiatry by Geert Keil,Lara Keuck,Rico Hauswald Pdf

In psychiatry there is no sharp boundary between the normal and the pathological. Although clear cases abound, it is often indeterminate whether a particular condition does or does not qualify as a mental disorder. For example, definitions of subthreshold disorders and of the prodromal stages of diseases are notoriously contentious. Philosophers and linguists call concepts that lack sharp boundaries, and thus admit of borderline cases, 'vague'. Although blurred boundaries between the normal and the pathological are a recurrent theme in many publications concerned with the classification of mental disorders, systematic approaches that take into account philosophical reflections on vagueness are rare. This book provides interdisciplinary discussions about vagueness in psychiatry by bringing together scholars from psychiatry, psychology, philosophy, history, and law. It draws together various lines of inquiry into the nature of gradations between mental health and disease and discusses the individual and societal consequences of dealing with blurred boundaries in medical practice, forensic psychiatry, and beyond. --

Author : Lloyd L. Weinreb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Criminal law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105060329336

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Criminal Law by Lloyd L. Weinreb Pdf

This casebook provides detailed information on criminal law. The casebook provides the tools for fast, easy, on-point research. Part of the University Casebook Series; , it includes selected cases designed to illustrate the development of a body of law on a particular subject. Text and explanatory materials designed for law study accompany the cases.

Author : Vikram Patel,Harry Minas,Alex Cohen,Martin Prince
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199920181

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Global Mental Health by Vikram Patel,Harry Minas,Alex Cohen,Martin Prince Pdf

This is the definitive textbook on global mental health, an emerging priority discipline within global health, which places priority on improving mental health and achieving equity in mental health for all people worldwide.

Author : Jane Moriarty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135729547

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The Insanity Defense: American Developments by Jane Moriarty Pdf

Whether the accused is competent to stand trial, whether the plaintiff is competent to accuse, or whether a witness is competent to testify has had a long legal history. Such questions draw legal reasoning into areas of ethical reflection and scientific debate deeply rooted in the moral history of the United States. Mental competence has come to play a central and controversial role in proving guilt, and in evaluating the severity of a crime and its corresponding punishment. This compendium brings together the major legal precedents and legal commentaries that have defined the role of mental illness in criminal trials throughout U.S. history. The reprint collection considers, among other issues, the evolution of the Supreme Court's position on the insanity defense and mental retardation, how these affect one's competency to stand trial or be executed, and how these affect culpability and punishment. Each volume begins with an introductory essay, and includes both cases and commentary. Scholars as well as students will find these volumes a useful research tool.

Author : Wolfgang Gaebel,Wulf Rössler,Norman Sartorius
Publisher : Springer
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783319278391

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The Stigma of Mental Illness - End of the Story? by Wolfgang Gaebel,Wulf Rössler,Norman Sartorius Pdf

This book makes a highly innovative contribution to overcoming the stigma and discrimination associated with mental illness – still the heaviest burden both for those afflicted and those caring for them. The scene is set by the presentation of different fundamental perspectives on the problem of stigma and discrimination by researchers, consumers, families, and human rights experts. Current knowledge and practice used in reducing stigma are then described, with information on the programmes adopted across the world and their utility, feasibility, and effectiveness. The core of the volume comprises descriptions of new approaches and innovative programmes specifically designed to overcome stigma and discrimination. In the closing part of the book, the editors – all respected experts in the field – summarize some of the most important evidence- and experience-based recommendations for future action to successfully rewrite the long and burdensome ‘story’ of mental illness stigma and discrimination.

Author : Thomas L. Hafemeister
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781479861644

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Criminal Trials and Mental Disorders by Thomas L. Hafemeister Pdf

The complicated relationship between defendants with mental health disorders and the criminal justice system The American criminal justice system is based on the bedrock principles of fairness and justice for all. In striving to ensure that all criminal defendants are treated equally under the law, it endeavors to handle similar cases in similar fashion, attempting to apply rules and procedures even-handedly regardless of a defendant’s social class, race, ethnicity, or gender. Yet, the criminal justice system has also recognized exceptions when special circumstances underlie a defendant’s behavior or are likely to skew the defendant’s trial. One of the most controversial set of exceptions –often poorly articulated and inconsistently applied – involves criminal defendants with a mental disorder. A series of special rules and procedures has evolved over the centuries, often without fanfare and even today with little systematic examination, that lawyers and judges apply to cases involving defendants with a mental disorder. This book provides an analysis of the key issues in this dynamic interplay between individuals with a mental disorder and the criminal justice system. The volume identifies the various stages of criminal justice proceedings when the mental status of a defendant may be relevant, associated legal and policy issues, the history and evolution of these issues, and how they are currently resolved. To assist this exploration, the text also offers an overview of mental disorders, their relevance to criminal proceedings, how forensic mental health assessments are conducted and employed during these proceedings, and their application to competency and responsibility determinations. In sum, this book provides an important resource for students and scholars with an interest in mental health, law, and criminal justice.

Author : Andrew Scull
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781512806823

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Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen by Andrew Scull Pdf

The Victorian Age saw the transformation of the madhouse into the asylum into the mental hospital; of the mad-doctor into the alienist into the psychiatrist; and of the madman (and madwoman) into the mental patient. In Andrew Scull's edited collection Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen, contributors' essays offer a historical analysis of the issues that continue to plague the psychiatric profession today. Topics covered include the debate over the effectiveness of institutional or community treatment, the boundary between insanity and criminal responsibility, the implementation of commitment laws, and the differences in defining and treating mental illness based on the gender of the patient.

Author : Canada. Health Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic documents
ISBN : UIUC:30112058251908

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A Report on Mental Illnesses in Canada by Canada. Health Canada Pdf

This report is designed to raise the profile of mental illness in Canada among government & non-governmental organizations and the industry, education, workplace, & academic sectors. It describes major mental illnesses and outlines their incidence & prevalence, causation, impact, stigma, and prevention & treatment. Data presented are based on currently available provincial studies & data on mortality and hospitalizations. Five mental illnesses have been selected for inclusion in the report by virtue of their high prevalence rates or because of the magnitude of their health, social, & economic impact: mood disorders, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and eating disorders. While not in itself a mental illness, suicidal behaviour is also included since it is highly correlated with mental illness and raises many similar issues. The appendix includes information on data sources and a call for action on building consensus for a national action plan on mental illness & mental health.

Author : Thomas Bewley
Publisher : RCPsych Publications
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1904671357

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Madness to Mental Illness by Thomas Bewley Pdf

This readable text presents the long-awaited first comprehensive history of the Royal College of Psychiatrists as an organisation, from its creation as the Association of Medical Officers of Asylums and Hospitals for the Insane in 1841, its development through various name changes and the receipt of two charters, to become the present Royal College as we know it today. As a former President of the College from 1984-7, Dr Bewley also gives an overview of the fascinating developments in British psychiatry and its sub-specialties over the past two centuries. Further, more specific activities are also detailed, such as the formation of the research unit, the College publishing programme of journals and books, and the growth in facilities now provided including the library and information service. The book contains a collection of photographs in a glossy centre section.