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Equality, "Anisonomy," And Justice: A Review Of Madness And The Criminal Law, Andrew Von Hirsch
Equality, "Anisonomy," And Justice: A Review Of Madness And The Criminal Law, Andrew Von Hirsch
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Madness and the Criminal Law by Norval Morris
The Insanity Plea: The Uses And Abuses Of The Insanity Defense, Michigan Law Review
The Insanity Plea: The Uses And Abuses Of The Insanity Defense, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Insanity Plea: The Uses and Abuses of the Insanity Defense by William J. Winslade and Judith Wilson Ross
Cults, Deprogrammers, And The Necessity Defense, Michigan Law Review
Cults, Deprogrammers, And The Necessity Defense, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
This Note considers the applicability of the necessity defense in criminal prosecutions of parents and deprogrammers. Part I explores the conflicting policies that underlie the traditional necessity defense, and suggests that courts replace their unitary approach to necessity with a "choice of evils" defense - for actors reasonably attempting to avoid a greater evil - and a "compulsion" defense - for actors reacting understandably to the pressure of circumstances. Part II applies these defenses to deprogramming cases, and concludes that rarely may they be advanced successfully.
Beating A Rap? Defendants Found Incompetent To Stand Trial, Michigan Law Review
Beating A Rap? Defendants Found Incompetent To Stand Trial, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Beating a Rap? Defendants Found Incompetent To Stand Trial by Henry J. Steadman
Mental Disabilities And Criminal Responsibility, Michigan Law Review
Mental Disabilities And Criminal Responsibility, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Mental Disabilities and Criminal Responsibility by Herbert Fingarette and Ann Fingarette Hasse
The Rise Of Prisons And The Origins Of The Rehabilitative Ideal, Carl E. Schneider
The Rise Of Prisons And The Origins Of The Rehabilitative Ideal, Carl E. Schneider
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Discovery of the Asylum: Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic by David J. Rothman
Disposition Of The Irresponsible: Protection Following Commitment, Travis H. Lewin
Disposition Of The Irresponsible: Protection Following Commitment, Travis H. Lewin
Michigan Law Review
Each year more of our fellow citizens are involuntarily committed to a mental institution of one sort or another than are incarcerated for the commission of a crime. To those committed, the walls and barred windows of the hospital, as well as the treatment and mode of living, are probably not significantly different from those of a prison. This is particularly the case with those confined for treatment by court order or by some special statutory procedure following acquittal of a crime on grounds of insanity. Yet these mentally ill, even after perpetrating what would otherwise have been a criminal …