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Mental Disorders And The Law, Richard Redding
Mental Disorders And The Law, Richard Redding
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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 Devil In The Details: How Specific Should Catholic Social Thought Teaching Be? , Michele R. Pistone
The Devil In The Details: How Specific Should Catholic Social Thought Teaching Be? , Michele R. Pistone
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The article explores Catholic social teaching's tradition of generality, and assesses the wisdom of, and potential for, change to a more specific orientation. The article enlightens the reader as to reasons for the traditional approach to Catholic social teaching, what might be gained by the articulation of a more concrete social teaching, the assertion that a more specific social teaching will require greater lay input, a suggestion for a possible mechanism for accomplishing this, and the benefits of greater lay input, particularly via the aforementioned mechanism. The article also makes some recommendations as to when, how, and to what degree …