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A Prescription for Dignity - Rethinking Criminal Justice and Mental Disability Law (Hardcover, New edition) Loot Price: R4,433
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A Prescription for Dignity - Rethinking Criminal Justice and Mental Disability Law (Hardcover, New edition): Michael L. Perlin

A Prescription for Dignity - Rethinking Criminal Justice and Mental Disability Law (Hardcover, New edition)

Michael L. Perlin

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Examining the treatment of persons with mental disabilities in the criminal justice system, this book offers new perspectives that are crucial to an understanding of the ways in which society projects onto criminal defendants prejudices and attitudes about responsibility, free will, autonomy, choice, public safety, and the meaning and purpose of punishment, all with a focus on ways to enhance dignity in the criminal trial process. It is a detailed exploration of issues of adequacy of counsel; the impact of international human rights law, following the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD); the role of mental health courts; and the influence of therapeutic jurisprudence, procedural justice, and restorative justice on the legal process. It considers all of these perspectives in the context of criminal justice system issues such as competency findings, the insanity defense, and sentencing. Demonstrating how the question of treatment of persons with mental disabilities in the criminal justice system is not only a vital one for both scholars and practitioners, but also a central facet of international human rights law, this book suggests policy development, further scholarly inquiries, and newly invigorated thinking and action to place dignity at the core of the criminal justice system.

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Imprint: Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: July 2013
First published: 2013
Authors: Michael L. Perlin
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Edition: New edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-7546-7724-6
Categories: Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > General
LSN: 0-7546-7724-9
Barcode: 9780754677246

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