Research Catalog

Title

The law of deprivation of liberty : cases and materials / Fred Cohen.

Author

Cohen, Fred.

Publication

Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c1991.

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Description

xix, 836 p.; 27 cm.

Subject

• Mentally ill > Cases. > United States
• Civil rights > United States > Cases
• Juvenile justice, Administration of > United States > Cases
• Homeless persons > United States
• Deviant behavior

Genre/Form

Trials, litigation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

ch. 1. Varieties of response to public deviance: A. Introduction ; B. Homelessness, mental illness and the official response to public deviance : civil commitment ; C.A criminal justice approach ; D. Law enforcement discretion ; E. Legal decisions and the criminal justice approach ; F. Civil v. criminal proceedings : introduction to procedural distinctions -- ch. 2. Law and social control: A. Introduction ; B. Criminal law : a general overview ; C. Punishment and treatment ; D. On punishment ; E. On treatment and other "helping" terms ; F. Commitment of narcotic addicts : at the borderland ; G. On deviance and the law -- ch. 3. Cruel and unusual punishment : constitutional restraints and the disease concept: A. Introduction ; B. Constitutional restraints in defining crime ; C. Alcoholism beyond deprivations of liberty ; D. Alcoholism and the disease concept ; E. Constitutional restraints on punishment -- ch. 4. The mentally disabled: A. Overview of the issues ; B. Mental illness : what is it? ; C.A brief history of "asylums" ; D. Standards for civil commitment ; E. Civil commitment and procedural justice ; F. Rights of institutionalized persons ; G. Civil v. criminal revisited ; H. Competency to be tried and the commitment process ; I. The insanity defense and criminal commitments ; J. Transfer decisions : the jurisprudence of moving the confined ; K. The right to "care" : treatment, rehabilitation ; habilitation and training ; L. Right to avoid treatment ; M. Release and return -- ch. 5. Juvenile justice : benevolence re-examined: A. Introduction ; B. The Supreme Court and juvenile justice ; C. Post-adjudicatory issues.

ISBN

0890894639

LCCN

^^^91073517^

OCLC

24919372

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library