| Description |
xv, 394 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"Timely and accessible, this is a highly informative resource for professionals and students in psychology, social work, and psychiatry, as well as criminal justice and criminology. Its innovative case-based format makes it a unique core text for advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level courses in forensic mental health and mental health and the law."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-379) and index |
| Subject |
Mental health laws -- United States -- Cases.
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Insanity (Law) -- United States -- Jurisprudence -- Cases
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Forensic psychiatry -- United States -- Cases.
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| Author |
Weaver, Christopher M.
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| LC no. |
2005022588 |
| ISBN |
1593852215 (hbk.) |
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