Mental Disorder and Criminal Law Responsibility, Punishment and Competence /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Schopp, Robert F. (Editor), Wiener, Richard L. (Editor), Bornstein, Brian H. (Editor), Willborn, Steven L. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Psychiatry.; Criminology.; Law and Psychology.; Criminology & Criminal Justice.

The death penalty has long played a central role in jurisprudence, in terms of identifying the most serious offenses and the most culpable offenders, as well as understanding the mental conditions that may exclude an offender from such a sentence. More recently, the debate has intensified on compete...