Add to ORKGProfessor Hardisty examines the use of the term mental illness by the law, focusing upon competency and insanity defense tests. After determining that the term has no accepted medical definition, the author analyzes the necessity for legal usage of the term. Professor Hardisty concludes that the term mental illness should be deleted from the law
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This Article is the second, and most important, installment in a three-part series that presents a c...
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Much of the ancient-day myth concerning mental illness still remains a present day phenomena and it ...
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Mental illness is almost never considered when courts determine whether a defendant is liable for a ...
Studies consistently show a high prevalence of mental disorders among criminal defendants. Forensic ...
The insanity defense has been described as a symbol of the relationship between law and psychiatry (...
Legal insanity is an element of many legal systems, and it has often stirred debate. It appears that...
This Article is the second, and most important, installment in a three-part series that presents a c...
This article will first explore the reasons for the controversy over the insanity defense to provide...
The law insists on maintaining mental disorder as a predicate for a wide array of legal provisions, ...
article published in law reviewThis article argues that mental illness should no longer be the basis...
This paper reviews the various ways in which an offender\u27s mental illness can have an effect on l...
A number of recent events makes it timely to reconsider certain aspects of the relation between psyc...
Much of the ancient-day myth concerning mental illness still remains a present day phenomena and it ...
The insanity defense has been the subject of great controversy. A review of the jurisprudential deba...
Almost all the literature about the influence of sanism and pretextuality on the development of ment...
This Article examines how people with mental disabilities and mental illnesses have been treated und...
Mental health law\u27s concern with justice, so much a part of the discussion of civil commitment, t...
Mental illness is almost never considered when courts determine whether a defendant is liable for a ...
Studies consistently show a high prevalence of mental disorders among criminal defendants. Forensic ...
The insanity defense has been described as a symbol of the relationship between law and psychiatry (...
Legal insanity is an element of many legal systems, and it has often stirred debate. It appears that...
This Article is the second, and most important, installment in a three-part series that presents a c...
This article will first explore the reasons for the controversy over the insanity defense to provide...