Suchergebnisse

Introduction -- Mental health and criminal justice -- A brief history of mental illness -- The brain and the mind -- Etiology of mental illness -- First responders and street encounters -- Involuntary and voluntary commitments -- Legal competency and the criminal trial -- Mentally ill defendants: defenses, pleas, and verdicts -- Correctional treatment of the mentally ill -- Juveniles and mental illness: special considerations -- Mental illness issues in the community -- Justice for the mentally ill: human rights and at-risk groups

This textbook looks at the main ethical questions that confront the criminal justice system - legislature, law enforcement, courts, and corrections - and those who work within that system, especially police officers, prosecutors, defence lawyers, judges, juries, and prison officers. John Kleinig sets the issues in the context of a liberal democratic society and its ethical and legislative underpinnings, and illustrates them with a wide and international range of real-life case studies. Topics covered include discretion, capital punishment, terrorism, restorative justice, and re-entry. Kleinig's discussion is both philosophically acute and grounded in institutional realities, and will enable students to engage productively with the ethical questions which they encounter both now and in the future - whether as criminal justice professionals or as reflective citizens