Michael L. Perlin

A Prescription for Dignity (eBook, ePUB)

Rethinking Criminal Justice and Mental Disability Law

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Demonstrating how the question of treatment of persons with mental disabilities in the criminal justice system is not only a vital one for both scholars and practitioners, but also a central facet of international human rights law, this book suggests policy development, further scholarly inquiries and newly invigorated thinking and action to place dignity at the core of the criminal justice system.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317187059
• Artikelnr.: 44866935

Autorenporträt

Michael L. Perlin is Professor of Law, Director of the International Mental Disability Law Reform Project, and Director of the Online Mental Disability Law Program at New York Law School. He is the author or co-author of over twenty books and 250 articles on mental disability law, international human rights law, and criminal justice. Before becoming a professor, he was Deputy Public Defender for the Mercer County Trial Region in the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender, and Director of the Division of Mental Health Advocacy in the New Jersey Department of the Public Advocate.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Introduction
Part I The Four Factors: The four factors, sanism, pretextuality, heuristics and 'ordinary common sense'. Part II The Five Perspectives: Counsel
International human rights law
Mental health courts
Alternative jurisprudences
Contextualizing dignity. Part III The Substantive Areas: Competencies
The insanity defense
Sentencing
Conclusion
Index.