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Psychological Evaluations for the Courts, Third Edition: A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals and Lawyers
: :This is the definitive reference and text for both mental health and legal professionals. The authors offer a uniquely comprehensive discussion of the legal and clinical contexts of forensic assessment, along with best-practice guidelines for participating effectively and ethically in a wide range of criminal and civil proceedings. Presented are findings, instruments, and procedures related to criminal and civil competencies, civil commitment, sentencing, personal injury claims, antidiscrimination laws, child custody, juvenile justice, and more.
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Proving the Unprovable: The Role of Law, Science, and Speculation in Adjudicating Culpability and Dangerousness (American Psychology-Law Society)
: :It is hard enough in many cases simply figuring out whether a person has committed an antisocial act. It is harder still to determine the extent to which he or she intended the act, and why he or she committed it. And most difficult of all is divining whether a person will harm again. The law has increasingly turned to mental health professionals to help address these issues, particularly the last two. Because of their familiarity with and study of human behavior, psychiatrists, psychologists and other clinicians are thought to ...
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Psychological Evaluations for the Courts: A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals and Lawyers, Second Edition
: :Considered the definitive resource and text on forensic psychiatry and psychology since the publication of the first edition, Psychological Evaluations for the Courts, Second Edition, continues to be the most comprehensive discussion of legal, research, and clinical issues for both mental health and legal professionals. Fully revised and updated, the volume covers a broad range of topics in forensic mental health, including insanity, child abuse, sentencing, personal injury claims, and civil commitment. Less traditional subjects such as federal antidiscrimination and entitlement laws, competency to testify, workers' compensation, and a new ...
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Criminal Procedure, 5th, 2008 Supplement (University Casebook: Supplement)
: :This 2008 case supplement is designed to accompany Whitebread and Slobogin's Criminal Procedure, 5th Edition.
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Law and the Mental Health System: Civil and Criminal Aspects (American Casebook Series) (American Casebook)
: :Noted authorities, professors Ralph Reisner and Christopher Slobogin, interpret the legal doctrine relating to the regulation of mental health professions. Their analysis is augmented by coverage of relevant empirical and clinical literature. The relationship between society and the mentally disabled is also explored.
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Criminal Procedure: An Analysis of Cases and Contracts, 4th Ed, 2005 Supplement
: :This work provides a far-reaching introduction to the study of criminal procedure, from investigation to habeas corpus. Topics covered include: Exclusionary Evidence Rule and other remedies for constitutional violations, law of arrest, law of searches, privilege against self-incrimination, eyewitness identification techniques, initial custodial decisions, pretrial review, preliminary hearing, grand jury, discovery, the right to a speedy trial, entrapment defense, guilty pleas and plea bargaining, adversarial rights, appeals, double jeopardy, right to counsel, effective assistance of counsel, and state constitutions as an independent source of rights.
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Criminal Procedure, An Analysis of Cases and Concepts (University Textbook Series)
: :This publication covers the law governing the criminal process, excluding sentencing. The first half of the book examines legal strictures on investigative techniques--search and seizure, interrogation, subpoenas, identification procedures and underocover work--and the second half discusses the adjudicatory process, from pretrial detention and the charging decision through preliminary hearings, discovery, plea bargaining, trial, appeal and habeas, as well as double jeopardy doctrine, right to counsel issues, and state constitutional law.This book is popular among students, academics and lawyers for its concise and well-organized statements of the law, its trenchant analysis, ...
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Privacy at Risk: The New Government Surveillance and the Fourth Amendment
: :Without our consent and often without our knowledge, the government can constantly monitor many of our daily activities, using closed circuit TV, global positioning systems, and a wide array of other sophisticated technologies. With just a few keystrokes, records containing our financial information, phone and e-mail logs, and sometimes even our medical histories can be readily accessed by law enforcement officials. As Christopher Slobogin explains in Privacy at Risk, these intrusive acts of surveillance are subject to very little regulation.Applying the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures, Slobogin ...
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Minding Justice: Laws That Deprive People with Mental Disability of Life and Liberty
: : Minding Justice offers a comprehensive examination of the laws governing the punishment, detention, and protection of people with mental disabilities. Using famous cases such as those of John Hinckley, Andrea Yates, and Theodore Kaczynski, the book analyzes the insanity defense and related doctrines, the role of mental disability in sentencing, the laws that authorize commitment of 'sexual predators' and others thought to be a threat to society, and the rules that restrict participation of mentally compromised individuals in the criminal and treatment decision-making processes. Arguing that current legal doctrines ...
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1999 Supplement to Criminal Procedure: An Analysis on Cases and Concepts (Foundation Press University Textbook)
: : Minding Justice offers a comprehensive examination of the laws governing the punishment, detention, and protection of people with mental disabilities. Using famous cases such as those of John Hinckley, Andrea Yates, and Theodore Kaczynski, the book analyzes the insanity defense and related doctrines, the role of mental disability in sentencing, the laws that authorize commitment of 'sexual predators' and others thought to be a threat to society, and the rules that restrict participation of mentally compromised individuals in the criminal and treatment decision-making processes. Arguing that current legal doctrines ...
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