Law and mental health : a case-based approach
Publication details: New York, NY : Guilford Press 2006Description: xv, 394 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 1593852215
- 9781593852214 (hard cover : alk. paper)
Contents:
Summary: Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-379) and index.
Jury selection and process : precedent impacting jury consultation and research -- Admission of expert testimony and the eyewitness -- Informed consent -- Confidentiality and privileged communication -- Duty to warn and protect -- Competency -- Insanity and criminal responsibility -- Civil commitment and dangerousness -- Hypnosis and the polygraph -- Sexual orientation and civil rights -- Personal injury : court proceedings and assessment of psychological damages -- Prisoners' rights to medical and mental health treatment -- Alcohol and drug abuse and dependence -- Mental retardation -- Psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder -- Criminal psychological profiling -- The death penalty -- Sex offenders : community notification and predator commitment -- Juvenile law and school law -- Capital punishment of juveniles -- Child abuse -- Child custody.
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Jury selection and process : precedent impacting jury consultation and research -- Admission of expert testimony and the eyewitness -- Informed consent -- Confidentiality and privileged communication -- Duty to warn and protect -- Competency -- Insanity and criminal responsibility -- Civil commitment and dangerousness -- Hypnosis and the polygraph -- Sexual orientation and civil rights -- Personal injury : court proceedings and assessment of psychological damages -- Prisoners' rights to medical and mental health treatment -- Alcohol and drug abuse and dependence -- Mental retardation -- Psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder -- Criminal psychological profiling -- The death penalty -- Sex offenders : community notification and predator commitment -- Juvenile law and school law -- Capital punishment of juveniles -- Child abuse -- Child custody.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-379) and index.
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