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The Evolution of Mental Health Law :
Lynda E. Frost
Hardcover - $81.95
This book chronicles a relatively new field that has developed around the goals of protecting the rights and needs of people with disabilities, defining the proper sphere of individualization in criminal justice, and drawing boundaries between scienc ...
Decisions and Dilemmas
Jill Peay
Paperback - $111.95
In the field of mental health law, we entrust decisions with consequences of the utmost gravity. Yet, how do non-lawyers make decisions where the legitimacy of those decisions derives from law? This book attempts to answer this question.
The Hidden Prejudice : Mental Disability on Trial
Michael L. Perlin
Hardcover - $77.95
In The Hidden Prejudice, Michael L. Perlin reveals a pattern of prejudice against mentally disabled individuals that keeps them from receiving equal treatment under the law. Sanism, like racism, is a prejudice against a minority population. This most ...
L&mhp : Florida
John Petrila
Hardcover - $159.95
The "Law & Mental Health Professionals series is designed to provide a resource for both mental health professionals and attorneys regarding mental health law in each state. The series presents the laws addressing many areas pertinent to mental healt ...
Mental Disorder and the Law : A Primer for Legal and Mental Health Professionals
Hon Richard D. Schneider
Paperback - $107.95
There is a growing appreciation that treating mentally ill offenders like other offenders is not beneficial to them or the public. This book combines psychiatrist/clinical information with the law in order to facilitate service to this community. It ...
Minding Justice : Laws That Deprive People with Mental Disability of Life and Liberty
Christopher Slobogin
Hardcover - $112.95
problems associated with criminal responsibility, protection of society from "dangerous" individuals, and the state's authority to act paternalistically.
Pscychiatry and Criminal Culpability
Ralph Slovenko
Hardcover - $528.95
Of related interest . . .
PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT — Theodore H. Blau
This unique training guide/reference was written in response to the ever-growing demand for psychological services in law enforcement agencies. Writte ...
Psychiatric Rights (Rites?) : A Treatise on Involuntary Mental Hospitalization and Thomas Szasz
Mark Vellucci
Paperback - $30.95
Involuntary mental hospitalization is a political act, based on the misguided need of the state to control its "undesirable" or "deviant" citizens. It has no place in a free society, as it is a violation of the fundamental rights to personal freedom ...