Around Australia, the Verdins principles govern the sentencing of offenders with mental health problems. The first Verdins principle holds that mental health problems may reduce an offender's culpability, and thus the punishment that is considered just in the circumstances. But how should this ...
This brief report presents preliminary data on the attitudes of judges on the sentencing of offenders with High Functioning Autism (HFA). Semi-structured t... Berryessa,Colleen. - 《Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders》 被引量: 7发表: 2016年 Sentencing Aboriginal Offenders: Balancing Offend...
In a sequence of decisions between 1989 and 2014, the United States Supreme Court grappled with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the shadow of the imposition of the death penalty on criminal offenders. In Penry v Lynaugh, 492 US 302 (1989), it jettisoned the notion of 'mental ...
OFFENDERS SUFFERING FROM PSYCHOPATHIC DISORDER This article reviews the proposals put forward in a joint D.H.S.S./Home Office consultation document to amend Section 37 of the Mental Health Act 1983. This concerns the powers of the courts to order the compulsory admission to hospital ... PEAY ...
To illustrate: there are only two or three offenders on their third strike. One of them is Daniel Fitzgerald who has a history of mental illness. In December 2016, under the influence of alcohol, he approached a woman he did not know in central Wellington. He tried to kiss her on the ...
Quite a number of such offenses are committed by people suffering from psychosexual disorders or disorders of impulse control. It should be noted that in many cases of offenses committed under the influence of such disorders the actual damage caused is not great, as in cases of exhibitionism, ...
First Peoples, First Principles: The Sentencing Commission's Obligation to Reject False Images of Criminal Offenders Driven by public concern about sex offenses, in recent years Congress has repeatedly enhanced the penalties for federal sex offenders. In doing so, it has ......
Mental impairmentPurpose: Offenders with intellectual disability (ID) who commit arson and other acts of fire setting are over-represented in the criminal justice system in Australia, as in many other jurisdictions. The purpose of this paper is to provide insight into the judicial considerations ...
Mental illnessMental DisorderSentencingCriminal LawAlthough there appears to be universal agreement that the great majority of offenders who are sentenced to prison live with a mental disorder and/or neurocognitSocial Science Electronic Publishing
SentencingCriminal LawIn DPP (Vic) v O'Neill, the Victorian Court of Appeal held that personality disorders do not constitute an 'impairment of mental functioning', and so should notWalvisch, JamieCarroll, AndrewSocial Science Electronic Publishing...