Mental disorder and criminal law

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Contributors to this important volume: Examine the effects of depression at different stages of legal procedure. Offer proposed criteria for [prohibiting] capital punishment [of] the severely mentally ill. Identify moral and procedural concerns in the use of child victims as witnesses. Analyze the balance between present responsibility and future risk. Untangle clinical and ethical issues for clinicians involved in capital sentencing. Clarify the process of psychological evaluation of competence to be executed. Review degrees of psychopathy in the context of criminal culpability. -- Provided by publisher.