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Adjudicative competence remains an important topic of research and
practice in psychology and law. In the five sections of
Adjudicative Competence: The MacArthur Studies, the authors present
not only a summary of the research of the MacArthur studies on
competence but also an examination of the underlying theoretical
work of Professor Richard Bonnie. It is the first publication to
encapsulate the scope and significance of both the studies
themselves and Bonnie's contributions. There is no other source
available that addresses this range of topics.
Given its breadth and scope, this book will be a "must have" for
forensic mental health professionals, an important volume for
lawyers, and a vital academic reference work.
Forced hospitalization of people with mental disorders has long
been a critical issue in the mental health services. Coercion and
Aggressive Community Treatment is the first sustained description
and analysis of what happens when aggressive' treatment becomes
coerced' treatment. Mental health professionals poignantly discuss
the tension they feel between wanting to do everything to treat
desperately ill people and the need to respect the rights of these
same people who want to make their own decisions, even if this
means forgoing treatment.
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.
This is the tenth volume in a series on research in community and
mental health.
Rethinking Risk Assessment tells the story of a pioneering investigation that challenges preconceptions about the frequency and nature of violence among persons with mental disorders, and suggests an innovative approach to predicting its occurrence.
This book explains how computer software is designed to perform the
tasks required for sophisticated statistical analysis. For
statisticians, it examines the nitty-gritty computational problems
behind statistical methods. For mathematicians and computer
scientists, it looks at the application of mathematical tools to
statistical problems. The first half of the book offers a basic
background in numerical analysis that emphasizes issues important
to statisticians. The next several chapters cover a broad array of
statistical tools, such as maximum likelihood and nonlinear
regression. The author also treats the application of numerical
tools; numerical integration and random number generation are
explained in a unified manner reflecting complementary views of
Monte Carlo methods. Each chapter contains exercises that range
from simple questions to research problems. Most of the examples
are accompanied by demonstration and source code available in from
the author's Web site. New in this second edition are
demonstrations coded in R, as well as new sections on linear
programming and the Nelder-Mead search algorithm.
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.
Forced hospitalization of people with mental disorders has long
been a critical issue in the mental health services. Coercion and
Aggressive Community Treatment is the first sustained description
and analysis of what happens when 'aggressive' treatment becomes
'coerced' treatment. Mental health professionals poignantly discuss
the tension they feel between wanting to do everything to treat
desperately ill people and the need to respect the rights of these
same people who want to make their own decisions, even if this
means forgoing treatment.
Adjudicative competence remains an important topic of research and
practice in psychology and law. In the five sections of
Adjudicative Competence: The MacArthur Studies, the authors present
not only a summary of the research of the MacArthur studies on
competence but also an examination of the underlying theoretical
work of Professor Richard Bonnie. It is the first publication to
encapsulate the scope and significance of both the studies
themselves and Bonnie's contributions. There is no other source
available that addresses this range of topics. Given its breadth
and scope, this book will be a "must have" for forensic mental
health professionals, an important volume for lawyers, and a vital
academic reference work.
This book explains how computer software is designed to perform the
tasks required for sophisticated statistical analysis. For
statisticians, it examines the nitty-gritty computational problems
behind statistical methods. For mathematicians and computer
scientists, it looks at the application of mathematical tools to
statistical problems. The first half of the book offers a basic
background in numerical analysis that emphasizes issues important
to statisticians. The next several chapters cover a broad array of
statistical tools, such as maximum likelihood and nonlinear
regression. The author also treats the application of numerical
tools; numerical integration and random number generation are
explained in a unified manner reflecting complementary views of
Monte Carlo methods. Each chapter contains exercises that range
from simple questions to research problems. Most of the examples
are accompanied by demonstration and source code available in from
the author's Web site. New in this second edition are
demonstrations coded in R, as well as new sections on linear
programming and the Nelder-Mead search algorithm.
This title offers an engaging and comprehensive overview of how
American courts use research and testimony from the social sciences
in reaching their decisions. It is organized around Daubert v.
Merrill Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., the United States Supreme
Court's landmark decision on scientific evidence, and the series of
recent cases beginning with Roper v. Simmons in which the Court
explicitly relied on social science evidence to transform the
process of criminal sentencing. The tenth edition offers a
completely revised and up-to-date treatment of the increasingly
critical role social science research plays in both federal and
state judicial opinions.
Discover the true genius behind history's greatest "madmen". From
Dr. Frankenstein to Dr. Jekyll, the image of the mad scientist
surrounded by glass vials, copper coils, and electrical apparatus
remains a popular fixture. In films and fiction, he's comically
misguided, tragically misunderstood, or pathologically evil. But
the origins of this stereotype can be found in the
sometimes-eccentric real life men and women who challenged our view
of the world and broke new scientific frontiers. They Called Me Mad
recounts the amazing true stories of such historical luminaries as
Archimedes, the calculator of pi and creator of the world's first
death ray; Isaac Newton, the world's first great scientist and the
last great alchemist; Nikola Tesla, who built the precursors of
robots, fluorescent lighting, and particle beam weapons before the
turn of the twentieth century-and more.
In courts across the country, judges depend on mental health
experts to determine whether mentally disordered people are
dangerous. But experts' ability to predict violence is severely
limited, and they are wrong as often as they are right. This study
reviews two decades of research on mental disorder and offers new
empirical and theoretical work that will pave the way for more
accurate predictions of violent behavior. Essential for all those
who are interested in the study of risk assessment of violence. It
is particularly important for the researcher in this area. . . .
For the clinician who must make violence assessments it is
important reading as well.--Stewart Levine, Bulletin of the
American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
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