Slobogin, Rai, and Reisner's Law and the Mental Health System: Civil and Criminal Aspects, 5th

By Christopher Slobogin, Arti Rai, Ralph Reisner

ISBN-13: 9780314183644

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Series: American Casebook Series

Brand: West Law School

Pages: 1435

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Shelf Space: 2 in.

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This textbook provides a comprehensive treatment of the law governing people with mental disability and the mental health professions. The fifth edition continues to provide teachable and thought-provoking legal, clinical, and empirical materials for a number of different courses, including mental disability law, law and the mental health professions, and criminal mental health law. New with this edition are extensive materials on the Virginia Tech shooting; recent case law on the right to refuse treatment and updates on federal confidentiality rules; expertise/Daubert issues; civil commitment; competency, sexual predator, and capital sentencing law; and more.