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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.

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Publisher
Springer
ISBN-10
0306411512
ISBN-13
9780306411519
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Author
Henry J. Steadman
Publication Name
Mentally Disordered Offenders : Perspectives from Law and Social Science
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
1983
Series
Perspectives in Law and Psychology Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
Xvi, 302 Pages

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Item Length
9.2in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
49 Oz

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Series Volume Number
6
Number of Volumes
1 Vol.
Lc Classification Number
Rc466.8-467.97
Table of Content
I: Incompetency to Stand Trial.- 1. Incompetency to Stand Trial: Developments in the Law.- 2. Defendants Incompetent to Stand Trial.- II: Acquittal by Reason of Insanity.- 3. Acquittal by Reason of Insanity: Developments in the Law.- 4. Defendants Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity.- III: Mentally Disordered Sex Offenders.- 5. Special Dispositional Alternatives for Abnormal Offenders: Developments in the Law.- 6. Mentally Disordered Sex Offenders.- IV: Prison-Mental Hospital Transfers.- 7. The Transfer of Inmates to Mental Health Facilities: Developments in the Law.- 8. Prisoners Transferred to Mental Hospitals.- V: A Compendium of United States Statutes on Mentally Disordered Offenders.- 9. Mental Disability in the American Criminal Process: A Four Issue Survey.
Copyright Date
1983
Topic
General, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Clinical Psychology, Mental Health
Lccn
83-002329
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Law, Psychology

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