Ethics

"Criminal Mental Health and Disability Law"

By Adam Kolber

An ABA representative recently sent me news about (and will soon send me a copy of) "Criminal Mental Health and Disability Law, Evidence and Testimony".  Below, I've posted some information about the book from its website (available here):

Criminal Mental Health and Disability Law, Evidence and Testimony: A Comprehensive Reference Manual for Lawyers, Judges and Criminal Justice Professionals is the first book to examine in detail the legal relationships that link criminal justice, mental health, and disability discrimination law. Regular: $110

Chapters include:

• A legal history of mental health and disability in the criminal justice system
• Overview of legal terms, concepts, developments, and considerations
• Criminal incompetency: pre-trial, trial, and post-trial
• Insanity and diminished culpability
• Dangerousness standards in the law, including death penalty
• Jails, prisons and secure "treatment"
  facilities: conditions of confinement and release
• Admissibility of expert evidence and testimony
• Mental health diagnoses and assessments
• Glossary
• Detailed index and table of contents
• Table of cases

Co-sponsored by ABA Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law and the ABA Criminal Justice Section

Full post as published by Neuroethics and Law on July 19, 2009 (boomark / email).