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Mental illness and criminal defenses of excuse in contemporary American law / Henry F. Fradella.

Title
Mental illness and criminal defenses of excuse in contemporary American law / Henry F. Fradella.
Author
Fradella, Henry F.
Publication
Bethesda, MD : Academica Press, c2007.

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viii, 148 p.; 24 cm.
Alternative Title
From insanity to diminished capacity
Subject
  • Mentally Ill Persons > legislation & jurisprudence
  • Forensic Psychiatry > legislation & jurisprudence
  • Insanity Defense
  • Insanity (Law) > United States
  • Forensic psychology > United States
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-140) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- Philosophical underpinnings of the insanity defense -- The insanity defense -- Ambiguities and problems with the insanity defense -- Introduction to diminished capacity -- Beyond diminished capacity -- Clark v. Arizona.
ISBN
  • 1933146311
  • 9781933146317
LCCN
^^2007000313
OCLC
77716660
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library