Research Catalog

Title

Mental health and law : research, policy, and services / edited by Bruce D. Sales and Saleem A. Shah.

Publication

Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c1996.

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Additional Authors

• Sales, Bruce Dennis.
• Shah, Saleem A. (Saleem Alam), 1931-1992.

Description

xiii, 371 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Carolina Academic Press Studies in law and psychology

Uniform Title

Carolina Academic Press Studies in law and psychology.

Subject

• Forensic Psychiatry
• Insanity (Law) > United States
• Mental Disorders
• Mental health laws > United States
• United States

Genre/Form

• Legislation
• Legislation.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Definition and perspective in mental health and law interactions / Bruce D. Sales and Saleem A. Shah -- Civil commitment of the mentally ill: research, policy and practice / Mary L. Durham -- Does involuntary outpatient commitment work? / Kathleen A. Maloy -- Research on the law and practice of guardianship / Phillip B. Tor and Bruce D. Sales -- Clinical assessments for legal decisionmaking in criminal cases: research recommendations / Thomas Grisso -- Treatment for forensic patients / Marnie E. Rice, Grant T. Harris and Vernon L. Quinsey.
• Settings for providing criminal and civil forensic mental health services / Ronald Roesch and James R.P. Ogloff -- Issues in the financing and organization of mental health services / Jeffrey Rubin -- Sex offenders and the law: new directions / Jeffrey A. Klotz -- Criminalizing the seriously mentally ill: putting the problem in perspective / Linda A. Teplin and Ecford S. Voit -- Research on law and mental health issues affecting minors / Edward P. Mulvey and Preston A. Britner -- Therapeutic jurisprudence: new directions in law/mental health scholarship / David B. Wexler.

ISBN

0890899142

LCCN

^^^96083448^

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Harvard Library