Criminal Mental Health and Disability Law, Evidence and Testimony - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Criminal Mental Health and Disability Law, Evidence and Testimony write by John Parry. This book was released on 2009. Criminal Mental Health and Disability Law, Evidence and Testimony available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Mental Disability Law, Evidence, and Testimony
Mental Disability Law, Evidence, and Testimony - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mental Disability Law, Evidence, and Testimony write by John Parry. This book was released on 2007. Mental Disability Law, Evidence, and Testimony available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This new book written by ABA Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law Director, John Parry, J.D. and forensic psychologist, Eric Y. Drogin, J.D., Ph.D., Manual has been formatted and written to guide lawyers, judges, law students, and forensic and other mental disability professionals through the maze of civil and criminal laws, standards, and evidentiary pitfalls, and forensic practices that characterize this area of the law. Moreover, it summarizes what empirical evidence exists to support or raise concerns about these legal standards and forensic practices when they are introduced in the courtroom.
Civil Mental Disability Law, Evidence and Testimony
Civil Mental Disability Law, Evidence and Testimony - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Civil Mental Disability Law, Evidence and Testimony write by John Parry. This book was released on 2010. Civil Mental Disability Law, Evidence and Testimony available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Mental Disability and the Death Penalty
Mental Disability and the Death Penalty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mental Disability and the Death Penalty write by Michael L. Perlin. This book was released on 2013-01-17. Mental Disability and the Death Penalty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There is no question that the death penalty is disproportionately imposed in cases involving defendants with mental disabilities. There is clear, systemic bias at all stages of the prosecution and the sentencing process – in determining who is competent to be executed, in the assessment of mitigation evidence, in the ways that counsel is assigned, in the ways that jury determinations are often contaminated by stereotyped preconceptions of persons with mental disabilities, in the ways that cynical expert testimony reflects a propensity on the part of some experts to purposely distort their testimony in order to achieve desired ends. These questions are shockingly ignored at all levels of the criminal justice system, and by society in general. Here, Michael Perlin explores the relationship between mental disabilities and the death penalty and explains why and how this state of affairs has come to be, to explore why it is necessary to identify the factors that have contributed to this scandalous and shameful policy morass, to highlight the series of policy choices that need immediate remediation, and to offer some suggestions that might meaningfully ameliorate the situation. Using real cases to illustrate the ways in which the persons with mental disabilities are unable to receive fair treatment during death penalty trials, he demonstrates the depth of the problem and the way it’s been institutionalized so as to be an accepted part of our system. He calls for a new approach, and greater attention to the issues that have gone overlooked for so long.
Mental Disability Law
Mental Disability Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mental Disability Law write by Michael L. Perlin. This book was released on 2005. Mental Disability Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This casebook covers all of constitutional "civil" mental health law, including involuntary civil commitment, the right to refuse treatment, and the rights of persons with mental disabilities in community settings. Perlin also addresses federal statutory rights, including, but not limited to, the Americans with Disabilities Act; other civil mental health issues, including tort law; and the criminal trial process, including all aspects of competency, the insanity defense, self-incrimination, confessions, the death penalty, and sentencing and post-sentencing issues. Important Supreme Court decisions that have been handed down since the first edition (Olmstead v. L.C., Tennessee v. Lane, Kansas v. Crane, Sell v. United States, and Atkins v. Virginia) are all given extensive attention. Mental Disability Law not only teaches students the relevant doctrine and theory, but also gives them an understanding of why the cases were decided as they were. Questions are provided after all major sections that encourage the teacher to direct students to think about the social, political, and behavioral forces that led to many of the decisions in question.
