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Meyer, Robert G.

Title Law and mental health : a case-based approach / Robert G. Meyer, Christopher M. Weaver.

Publication Info.	New York : Guilford Press, [2006]
	©2006

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Location	Call No.	Status
University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	344.7304 M613L	Check Shelf

Description	xv, 394 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-379) and index.
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.
Subject	Mental health laws -- United States -- Cases.
	Insanity (Law) -- United States -- Cases.
	Forensic psychiatry -- United States -- Cases.
	Forensic Psychiatry -- legislation & jurisprudence -- United States.
	Mental Disorders -- United States.
Added Author	Weaver, Christopher M.
ISBN	1593852215 hardcover : cover alkaline paper

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