Author: Bertram S. Brown
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ISBN:
Category : Criminal psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
This report provides an historical overview of the management and treatment of retarded offenders, definitions of defective delinquency, and survey of the institutionalized retarded offender. The authors surveyed approximately 200,000 inmates of penal institutions in December 1963. It was found that 9.5 percent of the inmates could be classified as mentally retarded. It was found that the most frequent crime committed by the retarded inmate was first-degree murder, accounting for slightly less than 21 percent of all the retardates. Other criminal homicides accounted for 17.6 percent of the sample, and breaking and entering accounted for an equal percentage. Other sections of the document deal with legal considerations affecting the retarded offender, current state planning for retarded offenders, and recommendations for action and research.
The Mentally Retarded Offender
Author: Bertram S. Brown
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
This report provides an historical overview of the management and treatment of retarded offenders, definitions of defective delinquency, and survey of the institutionalized retarded offender. The authors surveyed approximately 200,000 inmates of penal institutions in December 1963. It was found that 9.5 percent of the inmates could be classified as mentally retarded. It was found that the most frequent crime committed by the retarded inmate was first-degree murder, accounting for slightly less than 21 percent of all the retardates. Other criminal homicides accounted for 17.6 percent of the sample, and breaking and entering accounted for an equal percentage. Other sections of the document deal with legal considerations affecting the retarded offender, current state planning for retarded offenders, and recommendations for action and research.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
This report provides an historical overview of the management and treatment of retarded offenders, definitions of defective delinquency, and survey of the institutionalized retarded offender. The authors surveyed approximately 200,000 inmates of penal institutions in December 1963. It was found that 9.5 percent of the inmates could be classified as mentally retarded. It was found that the most frequent crime committed by the retarded inmate was first-degree murder, accounting for slightly less than 21 percent of all the retardates. Other criminal homicides accounted for 17.6 percent of the sample, and breaking and entering accounted for an equal percentage. Other sections of the document deal with legal considerations affecting the retarded offender, current state planning for retarded offenders, and recommendations for action and research.
The Mentally Retarded Offender and Corrections
Author: Miles Santamour
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ISBN:
Category : People with mental disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : People with mental disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Mental Retardation and the Law
Author: Paul R. Friedman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insanity (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insanity (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Mental Disability and the Death Penalty
Author: Michael L. Perlin
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1442200588
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
There is no question that the death penalty is disproportionately imposed in cases involving defendants with mental disabilities. There is clear, systemic bias at all stages of the prosecution and the sentencing process – in determining who is competent to be executed, in the assessment of mitigation evidence, in the ways that counsel is assigned, in the ways that jury determinations are often contaminated by stereotyped preconceptions of persons with mental disabilities, in the ways that cynical expert testimony reflects a propensity on the part of some experts to purposely distort their testimony in order to achieve desired ends. These questions are shockingly ignored at all levels of the criminal justice system, and by society in general. Here, Michael Perlin explores the relationship between mental disabilities and the death penalty and explains why and how this state of affairs has come to be, to explore why it is necessary to identify the factors that have contributed to this scandalous and shameful policy morass, to highlight the series of policy choices that need immediate remediation, and to offer some suggestions that might meaningfully ameliorate the situation. Using real cases to illustrate the ways in which the persons with mental disabilities are unable to receive fair treatment during death penalty trials, he demonstrates the depth of the problem and the way it’s been institutionalized so as to be an accepted part of our system. He calls for a new approach, and greater attention to the issues that have gone overlooked for so long.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1442200588
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
There is no question that the death penalty is disproportionately imposed in cases involving defendants with mental disabilities. There is clear, systemic bias at all stages of the prosecution and the sentencing process – in determining who is competent to be executed, in the assessment of mitigation evidence, in the ways that counsel is assigned, in the ways that jury determinations are often contaminated by stereotyped preconceptions of persons with mental disabilities, in the ways that cynical expert testimony reflects a propensity on the part of some experts to purposely distort their testimony in order to achieve desired ends. These questions are shockingly ignored at all levels of the criminal justice system, and by society in general. Here, Michael Perlin explores the relationship between mental disabilities and the death penalty and explains why and how this state of affairs has come to be, to explore why it is necessary to identify the factors that have contributed to this scandalous and shameful policy morass, to highlight the series of policy choices that need immediate remediation, and to offer some suggestions that might meaningfully ameliorate the situation. Using real cases to illustrate the ways in which the persons with mental disabilities are unable to receive fair treatment during death penalty trials, he demonstrates the depth of the problem and the way it’s been institutionalized so as to be an accepted part of our system. He calls for a new approach, and greater attention to the issues that have gone overlooked for so long.
The Criminal Justice System and Mental Retardation
Author: Ronald W. Conley
Publisher: Paul H Brookes Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Publisher: Paul H Brookes Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The Mentally Retarded Offender and the Law
The Mentally Retarded Offender and Corrections
Author: Miles Santamour
Publisher:
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Category : Corrections
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corrections
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
The Retarded Offender
Author: Miles Santamour
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description