Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
- Keyword
-
- Juvenile Offenders (2)
- Brain-damaged defendants (1)
- Control tests for insanity (1)
- Criminal behavior (1)
- Deterrence (1)
-
- Empirical (1)
- Evidence-based (1)
- Insanity defense (1)
- Jungian Theory (1)
- Legal education (1)
- Legal insanity (1)
- Mental Disorders (1)
- Mental Health Law (1)
- Mental Illness (1)
- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) (1)
- Parent Management Training (1)
- Parent Training (1)
- Recidivism (1)
- Risk assessment (1)
- Sentencing (1)
- Teaching and learning (1)
- Transfer Laws (1)
- Waiver Laws (1)
Articles 1 - 6 of 6
Full-Text Articles in Law
Evidence-Based Sentencing: The Science Of Sentencing Policy And Practice, Richard Redding
Evidence-Based Sentencing: The Science Of Sentencing Policy And Practice, Richard Redding
Richard E. Redding
Sentencing is where much of the action is in criminal practice, particularly since ninety percent or more of cases never go to trial but are settled through plea bargains. Acting within the constraints of applicable presumptive or mandatory sentencing guidelines, probation officers, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and judges typically rely on their instincts and experience to fashion a sentence based upon the information available about the offense and offender. But relying upon gut instinct and experience is no longer sufficient. It may even be unethical – a kind of sentencing malpractice that produces sentencing recommendations and decisions that are neither transparent …
Juvenile Transfer Laws: An Effective Deterrent To Delinquency?, Richard Redding
Juvenile Transfer Laws: An Effective Deterrent To Delinquency?, Richard Redding
Richard E. Redding
Provides an overview of research on the deterrent effects of transferring youth from juvenile to criminal courts, focusing on large-scale comprehensive OJJDP-funded studies on the effect of transfer laws on recidivism. The Bulletin reviews all of the extant research on the general and specific deterrent effects of transferring juveniles to adult criminal court.
Book Review: Juris Types, Learning Law Through Self-Understanding, Richard Redding
Book Review: Juris Types, Learning Law Through Self-Understanding, Richard Redding
Richard E. Redding
This article reviews the new book by Martha Peters and Don Peters, Juris Types: Learning Law Through Self-Understanding (2007). The book proposes that legal pedagogy and student learning strategies be guided in part by Carl Jung's Psychological Type Theory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator ("MBTI"). The MBTI is one of the most widely used personality tests in the world today, although the test has never been accepted in the academic community. This paper reviews the history of the development of the MBTI, and the empirical research on its validity and reliability, to explain why the test and its associated theory …
Training The Parents Of Juvenile Offenders: State Of The Art And Recommendations For Service Delivery, Richard Redding
Training The Parents Of Juvenile Offenders: State Of The Art And Recommendations For Service Delivery, Richard Redding
Richard E. Redding
Parent training is consistently highlighted as one of the most effective means of preventing delinquency and treating young children with conduct problems, and it has proven to be one of the most cost-effective interventions for doing so. There is, however, far less evidence supporting the efficacy of parent-training programs with adolescents and juvenile offenders. Nonetheless, it still seems to be one of the more promising methods for treating the behavior problems of adolescent delinquents, especially when used in conjunction with other carefully selected program components. We begin with an overview of parent training, highlighting the key components of successful programs. …
Mental Disorders And The Law, Richard Redding
Mental Disorders And The Law, Richard Redding
Richard E. Redding
This chapter provides an introduction to the major classes of mental disorder and the ways in which they are salient to selected aspects of American criminal and civil law, focusing particularly on criminal law issues.
The Brain-Disordered Defendant: Neuroscience And Legal Insanity In The Twenty-First Century, Richard Redding
The Brain-Disordered Defendant: Neuroscience And Legal Insanity In The Twenty-First Century, Richard Redding
Richard E. Redding
Brain-damaged defendants are seen everyday in American courtrooms, and in many cases, their criminal behavior appears to be the product of extremely poor judgment and self-control. Some have a disorder in the frontal lobes, the area of the brain responsible for judgment and impulse control. Yet because defendants suffering from frontal lobe dysfunction usually understand the difference between right and wrong, they are unable to avail themselves of the only insanity defense available in many states, a defense based on the narrow McNaghten test. "Irresistible impulse" (or "control") tests, on the other hand, provide an insanity defense to those who …