Mental Disorder and Criminal Law Responsibility, Punishment and Competence /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Schopp, Robert F. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Wiener, Richard L. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Bornstein, Brian H. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Willborn, Steven L. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Mental Disorder and the Criminal Process
• Depression and the Criminal Law: Integrating Doctrinal Empirical, and Justificatory Analysis
• Determining When Severe Mental Illness Should Disqualify a Defendant from Capital Punishment
• Accommodating Child Witnesses in the Criminal Justice System: Implications for Death Penalty Cases
• Protecting Well-Being While Pursuing Justice
• Judgments of Dangerousness and the Criminal Process
• Capital Punishment and Dangerousness
• Limited Expertise and Experts: Problems with the Continued Use of Future Dangerousness in Capital Sentencing
• Psychopathy, Culpability, and Commitment
• Quagmire Ahead!: The Sticky Role of Behavioral Science in Capital Sentencing
• Competence to Face Execution and the Roles of the Psychological Professions
• Meaningful Consideration of Competence to be Executed
• Psychological Expertise and Amicus Briefs in the Context of Competence to Face Execution
• Constitutional Health Care and Incompetency to Face Execution.