TY  - BOOK
AU  - Meyer, Robert G.
AU  - Weaver, Christopher M.
TI  - Law and mental health : a case-based approach
SN  - 1593852215
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Guilford Press
KW  - Mental Health
KW  - Law
N1  - Jury selection and process : precedent impacting jury consultation and research -- Admission of expert testimony and the eyewitness -- Informed consent -- Confidentiality and privileged communication -- Duty to warn and protect -- Competency -- Insanity and criminal responsibility -- Civil commitment and dangerousness -- Hypnosis and the polygraph -- Sexual orientation and civil rights -- Personal injury : court proceedings and assessment of psychological damages -- Prisoners' rights to medical and mental health treatment -- Alcohol and drug abuse and dependence -- Mental retardation -- Psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder -- Criminal psychological profiling -- The death penalty -- Sex offenders : community notification and predator commitment -- Juvenile law and school law -- Capital punishment of juveniles -- Child abuse -- Child custody
N2  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-379) and index
ER  -