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... Read more
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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.