Minding Justice - Laws That Deprive People With Mental Disability of Life and Liberty

Informationen zum Autor Christopher Slobogin is Milton Underwood Professor of Law and Professor of Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University. Klappentext problems associated with criminal responsibility! protection of society from "dangerous" individuals! and the state's authority to act paternalistically. Zusammenfassung This comprehensive examination of the laws governing the punishment, detention, and protection of people with mental disabilities provides innovative solutions to problems associated with criminal responsibility, protection of society from “dangerous” individuals, and the state’s authority to act paternalistically.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Slobogin, Slobogin Christopher
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2006
• EAN: 9780674022041
• ISBN: 978-0-674-02204-1
• No. of pages: 396
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Civil law, civil procedural law; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / Constitutional, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general