Research Catalog

Title

• Genetics and criminality : the potential misuse of scientific information in court / edited by Jeffrey R. Botkin, William M. McMahon, Leslie Pickering Francis.

Publication

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, c1999.

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Additional Authors

• Botkin, Jeffrey R.
• Francis, Leslie, 1946-
• McMahon, William M.

Description

xiii, 277 p.; 26 cm.

Summary

Annotation

Series Statement

• Law and public policy

Uniform Title

Law and public policy

Subject

• Confidentiality
• Criminal Law
• Forensic Psychiatry
• Forensic genetics > United States
• Forensic psychiatry > United States
• Genetics > legislation & jurisprudence
• Genetics, Behavioral
• Juvenile Delinquency > legislation & jurisprudence
• Mental Disorders > genetics
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• On the threshold : illusion and reality in American psychiatric thought / Gerald N. Grob -- Criminal determinism in twentieth-century America / Edward J. Larson -- "Big ideas, images and distorted facts" : the insanity defense, genetics, and the "political world" / Michael L. Perlin -- The genetics of behavior and concepts of free will and determinism / Dan W. Brock and Allen E. Buchanan -- Genetics, social responsibility, and social practices / Lisa S. Parker -- Natural-born defense attorneys / Robert F. Schopp.
• Phenomenology of psychiatric illnesses with special reference to risk of violence and other criminal behavior / Samuel B. Guze -- Genetic research and the clinical subtleties of mental illness / Mark Leppert -- Violence and mental illness : additional complexities / Robert M. Wettstein -- Genetic research on mental disorders / Steven O. Moldin -- New techniques in the genetic analysis of complex illness / Hilary Coon -- Criminal responsibility and the "genetics defense" / Rebecca Dresser.
• The "genetics defense" : hurdles and pressures / Mary Crossley -- The use of human genome research in criminal defense and mitigation of punishment / Daniel A. Summer -- The "defective gene" defense in criminal cases / Creighton C. Horton II -- Juvenile law and genetics / Mark A. Small -- Juvenile capability and genetics / Jeffrey A. Kovnick -- A brave new crime-free world? / Mary Coombs -- Criminal law / Leslie Pickering Francis -- The new genetics and juvenile law / William M. McMahon Francis -- The new genetics and juvenile law / William M. McMahon.

ISBN

1557985804

LCCN

^^^99020607^

OCLC

40857092

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library