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A Prescription for Dignity: Rethinking Criminal Justice and Mental Disability Law
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Hardcover
1 edition from Ashgate Pub Co (July 28, 2013)
9780754677246 | details & prices | 244 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.45 lbs | List price $149.95
About: 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.
About: 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.