Research Catalog

Title

A case study in the insanity defense : the trial of John W. Hinckley, Jr. / by Richard J. Bonnie, John C. Jeffries, Jr., Peter W. Low.

Author

Bonnie, Richard J.

Publication

New York, N.Y. : Foundation Press/Thomson/West, c2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Jeffries, John C., Jr., 1948-
• Low, Peter W., 1937-

Description

vii, 167 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

"This casebook first presents a background introduction and provides the history behind the insanity defense. The text features extensive coverage of the John W. Hinckley Jr. trial. It reviews the reactions to the verdict, comments and questions from the trial, and insanity defense reform after the trial. It also includes coverage of Hinckley's hospitalization and treatment."--Publisher's website.

Subject

• Hinckley, John W. Jr. > Trials, litigation, etc
• Trials (Assassination) > Washington (D.C.)
• Insanity defense > United States
• Criminal liability > United States

Genre/Form

Trials, litigation, etc.

Note

• Rev. ed. of: The trial of John W. Hinckley, Jr. / by Peter W. Low, John Calvin Jeffries, Jr., and Richard J. Bonnie. 1986.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

PART I : BACKGROUND: Introduction to the insanity defense -- History of the insanity defense -- PART II : THE HINCKLEY TRIAL: United States v. John W. Hinckley, Jr. -- PART III : REACTIONS TO THE VERDICT: Comments and questions on the Hinckley trial -- Reform of the insanity defense after Hinckley -- PART IV : THE AFTERMATH: Hospitalization and treatment of John W. Hinckley, Jr. : 1982-2005.

ISBN

9781599413846 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008273963

OCLC

• 213483939
• SCSB-10229575

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library