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Mentally Disordered Offenders

Perspectives from Law and Social Science

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  • © 1983

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Editors:
  1. John Monahan

    1. School of Law, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

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  2. Henry J. Steadman

    1. Special Projects Research Unit, New York State Department of Mental Hygiene, Albany, USA

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Part of the book series: Perspectives in Law & Psychology (PILP, volume 6)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Incompetency to Stand Trial

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Incompetency to Stand Trial

      • Bruce J. Winick
      Pages 3-38

    3. Defendants Incompetent to Stand Trial

      • Henry J. Steadman, Eliot Hartstone
      Pages 39-62

  3. Acquittal by Reason of Insanity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
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    2. Acquittal by Reason of Insanity

      • Grant Morris
      Pages 65-108

    3. Defendants Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity

      • Henry J. Steadman, Jeraldine Braff
      Pages 109-129

  4. Mentally Disordered Sex Offenders

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
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    2. Special Dispositional Alternatives for Abnormal Offenders

      • George E. Dix
      Pages 133-190

    3. Mentally Disordered Sex Offenders

      • John Monahan, Sharon Kantorowski Davis
      Pages 191-204

  5. Prison-Mental Hospital Transfers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205
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    2. The Transfer of Inmates to Mental Health Facilities

      • Michael J. Churgin
      Pages 207-232

    3. Prisoners Transferred to Mental Hospitals

      • John Monahan, Sharon Kantorowski Davis, Eliot Hartstone, Henry J. Steadman
      Pages 233-244

  6. A Compendium of United States Statutes on Mentally Disordered Offenders

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 225-225
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    2. Mental Disability in the American Criminal Process

      • Robert J. Favole
      Pages 247-295

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 297-302
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About this book

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. The real importance of mentally disordered offenders, however, may not lie in this figure. Rather, it may reside in the symbolic role that mentally disordered offenders play for the rest of the legal system. The 3,140 persons residing in state institutions on an average day in 1978 as not guilty by reason of insanity (see Chapter 4), for example, are surely worthy of concern in their own right. But they represent only 1% of the 307,276 persons residing in state and federal prisons in the same period (U. S. Dept. of Justice, 1981). From a purely numeric point of view, the insanity defense truly is "much ado about little" (Pasewark & Pasewark, 1982). The central importance of understanding these persons, however, is that they serve a symbolic function in justifying the imprisonment of the other 99%. The insanity defense, as Stone (1975) has noted, is "the exception that proves the rule. " By exculpating a relatively few people from being criminally responsible for their behavior, the law inculpates all other law violators as liable for social sanction.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Law, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

    John Monahan

  • Special Projects Research Unit, New York State Department of Mental Hygiene, Albany, USA

    Henry J. Steadman

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mentally Disordered Offenders

  • Book Subtitle: Perspectives from Law and Social Science

  • Editors: John Monahan, Henry J. Steadman

  • Series Title: Perspectives in Law & Psychology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0351-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1983

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-41151-9Published: 31 May 1983

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-0353-2Published: 31 May 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-0351-8Published: 11 November 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0160-4422

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 302

  • Topics: Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Law and Psychology

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