Jury and the Defense of Insanity

ISBN-13: 9781138526709 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 280 str.

Rita J. Simon

Opis

Thirty years after it was first published, the issues raised in The Jury and the Defense of Insanity remain pertinent

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The Jury and The Defense of Insanity; Introduction to the Transaction Edition; I: History and Method; 1: The Defense of Insanity in English and American Courts: A Brief Review; 2: Experimental Juries— Method and Research Design; II: The Impact of the Experimental Variables on the Jury’s Verdict; 3: The Jury’s Response to Legal Rules in Defense of Insanity Trials; 4: The Jury’s Assessment of the Psychiatric Testimony; 5: The fury’s Response to the Commitment Instruction; III: The Influence of Social Status and Attitudes on the Jury’s Decisions; 6: Social Status Differences Among Jurors; 7: Jurors’ Attitudes Toward Mental Illness, Psychiatry, and Related Topics; IV: The Jury Deliberates; The Sound of the Jury; 1: A Look to the Future; 9: The Jurors’ Appraisal of Legal Rules; 10: Postscript: The Durham Rule in the Real World; 11: Summary and Concluding Remarks

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Rita J. Simon