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  • 022575

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  • Published 2007.
  • 76 pages.

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Mental Illness and the Death Penalty in North Carolina: A Diagnostic Approach

Publication year: 2007 | Cataloged on: Oct. 11, 2007
ANNOTATION: "[E]ntrenched obstacles within the criminal justice system [that] impede efforts to recognize those with severe mental illness and to treat them fairly" are investigated (p. 6). Sections following an introduction include: conceptualizing mental illness; legal considerations of mental illness in North Carolina capital cases; application -- practice vs. theory; rationale for reform; solutions -- building a scientific and legal consensus; and conclusion.
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