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"Justice for All: Challenges of the Mentally Ill in the Legal System"

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

New book by Dr. Sherrie Bourg Carter: Justice for All: Challenges of the Mentally Ill in the Legal System published by NITA. The abstract: Representing clients with mental illness is a challenging task that requires specialized skills and knowledge that few attorneys receive in law school. Yet, with jails and prisons becoming repositories for hundreds of thousands of mentally ill people each year, the unprecedented growth of the world’s elderly population (and its often accompanying cognitive decline), and the higher incidence of domestic violence, substance abuse, and child abuse allegations in family law matters, such skills and knowledge are critical to competent and effective representation in all areas of legal practice. In Justice for All, Dr...continue to full post

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on January 10, 2010 (boomark / email).