Mental disability, violence, and future dangerousness : myths behind the presumption of guilt /
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| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Maryland :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Persons with mental disabilities and the American legal system : a history of discrimination, abuse and mistreatment
- Sanism and America's exaggerated fear of violence
- Sanist words and language in the american legal system : "dangerousness", "the right to treatment" and "civil" versus "criminal"
- Predictions of dangerousness in the courtroom : unreliable, inaccurate and misleading
- Accusations based on the unknowable : predictions of dangerousness in civil and criminal proceedings
- Dangerousness and the unconscionable failure to provide humane care and treatment to persons with mental disabilities
- An extremely suspect classification
- A new system of state and federal laws and public health approaches for persons with mental disabilities deemed to be dangerous : initial recommendations
- Bibliography.