Crime & criminology
Executing the Mentally Ill
The Criminal Justice System and the Case of Alvin Ford
by Miller, Kent; Radelet, Michael L.;
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Based on the case of Alvin Ford, an American death row inmate, this thought-provoking book focuses on the issues raised when the criminal justice system attempts to apply the death penalty to the mentally impaired.
Issues addressed include: the definition of mental illness for the purposes of exemption from execution; the evaluation of competence for execution by mental health professionals; the consequences of disagreements among health professionals about a defendant's mental status; and the fate of prisoners who are exempted. Ford's unique case leads the authors to examine more general issues such as the involvement of health professionals in modern capital sentencing, as well as the administration of the death penalty i
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- Publisher/Imprint SAGE Publications / SAGE Publications, Inc
- Publication Date June 1993
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781452254227 / 0803951507
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- Primary Price 28.99 GBP
- Pages216
- Publish StatusPublished
- ResponsibilityKent S. Miller, Michael L. Radelet.
- Page size24
- IllustrationPortraits
- Biblio NotesBibliography: p185-194. - Includes index.
- Reference CodeBDZ0001103957
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