1st Edition

The Role of Mental Illness in Criminal Trials: Insanity & Mental Incompetence

Edited By Jane Moriarty
    900 Pages
    by Routledge

    This collection reprints in facsimile the most influential scholarship published in this subject area. The thematically-organized volumes are available individually or as a set:
    * Vol. 1: The History of Mental Illness in Criminal Cases: the English Tradition
    350 pp*[0-8153-4062-1]
    * Vol. 2: The Insanity Defense: American Developments
    350 pp*[0-8153-4063-X]
    * Vol. 3: Competency to be Tried, Imprisoned and Executed
    350 pp*[0-8153-4064-8]

    Biography

    Jane Moriarty is Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Akron School of Law, Akron Ohio. She is author of Psychological and Scientific Evidence in Criminal Trials (Clark Boardman Callaghan, 1996), which is updated annually, and editor of Women and the Law (West Group, 1998). She has written a number of articles dealing with law, evidence, and expert witnesses.