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Mentally disordered offenders : perspectives from law and social science

In its narrowest sense, "mentally disordered offender" refers to the approximately twenty thousand persons per year in the United States who are institutionalized as not guilty by reason of insanity, incompetent to stand trial, and mentally disordered sex offenders, as well as those prisoners transferred to mental hospitals.
Print Book, English, ©1983
Plenum Press, New York, ©1983
Trials, litigation, etc
xvi, 302 pages ; 24 cm
9780306411519, 0306411512
9256003
Incompetency to stand trial : developments in the law / Bruce J. Winick
Defendants incompetent to stand trial / Henry J. Steadman and Eliot Hartstone
Acquittal by reason of insanity : developments in the law / Grant Morris
Defendants not guilty by reason of insanity / Henry J. Steadman and Jeraldine Braff
Special dispositional alternatives for abnormal offenders : developments in the law / George E. Dix
Mentally disordered sex offenders / John Monahan and Sharon Kantorowski Davis
The transfer of inmates to mental health facilities : developments in the law / Michael J. Churgin
Prisoners transferred to mental hospitals / John Monahan [and others]
Mental disability in the American criminal process : a four issue survey / Robert J. Favole