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Lawyers, psychiatrists, and criminal law : cooperation or chaos? / By Harlow M. Huckabee ; with a foreword by Fred G. Folsom and Cono R. Namorato.

Title
Lawyers, psychiatrists, and criminal law : cooperation or chaos? / By Harlow M. Huckabee ; with a foreword by Fred G. Folsom and Cono R. Namorato.
Author
Huckabee, Harlow M.
Publication
Springfield, Ill. : C. C. Thomas, c1980.

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Details

Description
xiv, 203 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Criminal liability > United States
  • Forensic Psychiatry
  • Forensic psychiatry > United States
  • Insanity (Law) > United States
  • Mental Disorders
  • United States
Genre/Form
Legislation
Note
  • Includes indexes.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 189-196.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Foreword -- Preface -- I. The central problem : who should be held criminally responsible? 1. Liberalization of responsibility tests -- 2. Evidence of mental disorder on mens rea (mental state required for the offense ) -- 3. Proposals to substitute mens rea for traditional responsibility tests -- 4. Cooperation or chaos? -- 5. A framework for action -- II. Evaluation of other problems. 6. Competency to stand trial -- 7. Are psychiatrists experts in criminal law matters? -- 8. Briefing psychiatrists -- 9. Shopping for psychiatrists -- 10. Are impartial experts and court clinics the answer : or would this give too much power to psychiatrists? -- Epilogue.
ISBN
0398040842
LCCN
^^^80012875^