Criminal mental health and disability law, evidence and testimony : a comprehensive reference manual for lawyers, judges, and criminal justice professionals / John Parry
Published
Chicago, Ill. : American Bar Association, Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law, Criminal Justice Section, [2009]
A legal history of mental health and disability discrimination in the criminal justice system -- Mental health and disability law overview -- Criminal incompetency -- Insanity and diminished culpability -- Dangerousness in the criminal law -- Jails, prisons, and secure "treatment" facilities : conditions of confinement and release -- Admissibility of expert evidence and testimony -- Mental health diagnoses and assessments -- Criminal incompetency -- Evidence of insanity and diminshed culpability -- Dangerousness to others and self -- Care and treatment of inmates -- Disability discrimination involving inmates in corrections facilities
