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Intellectual disability and the death penalty : current issues and controversies / Marc J. Tassé and John H. Blume.
Van Pelt Library KF9227.C2 T37 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tassé, Marc J., author.
- Blume, John H., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capital punishment--United States.
- Capital punishment.
- People with mental disabilities and crime.
- Offenders with mental disabilities--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Offenders with mental disabilities.
- United States.
- Offenders with mental disabilities--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.
- People with mental disabilities and crime--United States.
- Mentally ill--Commitment and detention--United States.
- Mentally ill.
- Mentally ill--Commitment and detention.
- Insanity (Law)--United States.
- Insanity (Law).
- Physical Description:
- viii, 176 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2018]
- Contents:
- Intellectual disability and how it is diagnosed
- A brief history of and introduction to the modern American death penalty
- The Supreme Court and the categorical exemption from capital punishment for persons with intellectual disability : Atkins v. Virginia
- Atkins on the ground : post-Atkins lower court decisions
- Assessing intellectual functioning
- Assessing adaptive behavior
- Assessing the age of onset
- Expert witnesses
- The future of Atkins.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Tassé, Marc J. Intellectual disability and the death penalty.
- ISBN:
- 9781440840142
- 1440840148
- OCLC:
- 929588826
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