Research Catalog

Title

Criminal responsibility and mental disease / by C. R. Jeffery. With a foreword by Henry H. Foster, Jr.

Author

Jeffery, C. Ray (Clarence Ray), 1921-

Publication

Springfield, Ill. : Thomas, 1967.

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Additional Authors

Foster, Henry H., Jr., 1911-1988

Description

xvii, 324 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Mental Competency > legislation & jurisprudence
• Criminal Psychology
• Criminology
• Forensic Psychiatry
• Criminal liability > Washington (D.C.)
• Insanity (Law) > Washington (D.C.)
• Criminal psychology

Genre/Form

Legislation

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliographical footnotes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. The law, crime, and mental disease. 1. Criminal intent and insanity -- 2. Research procedure -- 3. Mental disease and the courts -- 4. Crime, mental disease, and causation -- 5. United States vs. Kent -- 6. United States vs. Jenkins -- 7. Cases of personality disorder -- 8. Release procedures -- II. Behavioral science, mental disease, and crime. 9. Clinical method -- 10. Kent and Jenkins revisited -- 11. Mental disease : what is it? -- 12. Does mental illness cause crime? -- 13. Alternate theories of behavior -- 14. Conclusions -- Appendix. A. Lawyer's interview schedule -- B. Psychiatrist's interview schedule -- C. Involuntary institutionalization : some legal, ethical and social implications / Edward S. Sulzer.

LCCN

^^^66024630^//r84

OCLC

• 350089
• SCSB-10485078

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library