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Criminally Committed Mental Patient Services: A Task Force Report, Roger V. Endell, John E. Havelock

Reports

Until 1980, criminal defendants found incompetent to stand trial or not guilty by reason of insanity were committed under contract, at the discretion of the Alaska Division of Mental Health, to Atascadero State Hospital in California, a facility suitable to longer-term care of persons needing a secure setting. Changes in California state policy foreclosed this option. The most likely facility in Alaska that could accommodate this class of patients was Alaska Psychiatric Institute (API) in Anchorage; however, introduction of a few new patients with special security needs would have impacts on existing programs of the Institute. This report presents recommendations …

The Role Of Mental Health Professionals In The Criminal Process: The Case For Informed Speculation, Christopher Slobogin, Richard J. Bonnie

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

In this article we have attempted to make the case for continued participation by appropriately qualified mental health professionals in the adjudication of reconstructive subjective issues of the criminal law. In Part I, we outlined the reasons why imprecision and speculation is and must be tolerated in doctrines of exculpation and mitigation. In Part II, we developed the case for evidentiary rules which permit "informed speculation" by qualified clinical experts so as to enable defendants to explore and present subjective defenses and assist triers of fact to assess the plausibility and significance of such claims. We recognize that many mental …

Alaska Justice Forum ; Vol. 2, No. 8 (September 1978), Peter Smith Ring, James C. Hornaday, N/A Uaa Criminal Justice Center

Vols 01-10 (1977-1994)

The September 1978 issue of the Alaska Justice Forum leads with an article proposing alternatives to the exclusionary rule, which requires the suppression of evidence resulting from unconstitutional searches and seizures. Homer District Court Judge James C. Hornaday describes current trends in criminal law. The decision of the Alaska Supreme Court in William A. Rust v. State of Alaska (584 P.2d 38 (1978)) in regards to rights of prisoners to psychological or psychiatric treatment is discussed. Additional articles discuss community service as an alternative sentence and a nationwide study involving 30 police departments on predicting success in clearing burglary cases. …

Alaska Criminal Code Revision — Tentative Draft, Part 5: General Provisions; Justification; Responsibility; Bad Checks; Littering; Business And Commercial Offenses; Credit Card Offenses; Offenses Against The Family; Abuse Of Public Office; Offenses Against Public Order; Miscellaneous Offenses; Weapons And Explosives, Alaska Criminal Code Revision Subcommission

Reports

The Alaska Criminal Code Revision Commission was established in 1975, and reestablished in June 1976 as a Subcommission of the newly formed Code Commission, with the responsibility to present a comprehensive revision of Alaska’s criminal code for consideration by the Alaska State Legislature. Tentative Draft, Part 5, includes the remaining substantive provisions of the draft Revised Criminal Code not covered in prior parts of the tentative draft: articles on general provisions, justification (part 2), and responsibility (mental disease or defect); remaining sections in the Offenses Against Property chapter (issuing a bad check, littering); articles on business and commercial offenses (part …

The Newport College Introduces A Social Work Program, Salve Regina College

Press Release Archive

PG5-4_PressRelease_197712_03

Ariel - Volume 5 Number 4, J.D. Kanofsky, Bob Sklaroff, Robert G. Lahita, Ken Jaffe, John Santartas, Philip Nimoityn, Bruce Silver, Frank Chervenak, Gary Kaskey, Joe Conti, Geoff Halleck

Ariel

Editors

Mark Dembert

J.D. Kanofskv

Entertainment Editors

Robert Breckenridge

Joe Conti

Overseas Editor

Mike Sinason

Photographer

Scott Kastner

Epistemologist

Gary Kaskey

Staff

Ken Jaffe

Bob Sklaroff

Janet Weish

David Jacoby

Phil Nimoityn

Circulation Editor

Jay Amsterdam

Humorist

Jim Mccann

Civil Commitment Procedure In Louisiana, Larry C. Becnel

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Courts-Scope Of Authority-Sterilization Of Mental Defectives, William R. Warnock

Michigan Law Review

Respondent, age nineteen, appeared before the probate court of Muskingum County, Ohio, upon an affidavit filed by her mother alleging the child to be feeble-minded and in need of medical treatment. Results of psychological tests were presented at the hearing, revealing that respondent had an intelligence quotient of thirty-six and was therefore a feeble-minded person within the statutory definition. Respondent had had one illegitimate child, for whom she was unable to provide even rudimentary care or financial support, and was physically capable of bearing more children. Taking judicial notice that the state mental hospitals were then overcrowded and unable to …