A society that is sensitive to rights is, for that reason, sensitive to persons. On one level,
rights function as a meta-possession: a grounding for the possibility of an individual's …

The diminished capacity doctrine allows a mentally abnormal but legally sane defendant to
have his or her mental abnormality taken into account in assessing criminal …

Ben Karpman la this study, the author, Chief Psychiatrist in St. Elizabeth's Hospital,
discusses lying as a particular form of human behavior, its relation to honesty, and its …

Little attention has been paid to the importance of the relationship between therapeutic
jurisprudence (TJ) and the role of criminal defense lawyers in insanity and incompetency-to …

The various jurisdictions worldwide that now legally permit assisted suicide (or voluntary
euthanasia) vary concerning the medical conditions needed to be legally eligible for …

Personality disorder is associated with self-harm and suicide, as well as criminal offending
and violence towards others. These behaviours overlap when the means chosen to self …

This article presents several case reports of psychiatric patients who have “died with their
rights on," situations in which scrupulous con-cern for the patient's rights overshadowed and …

This article considers the international human rights instruments which set minimum
standards for the content and use of mental health legislation, and the extent to which they …

Over the last twenty years, many progressive campaigns for reforms of the position of
socially disadvantaged groups have articulated themselves in terms of rights. The language …

A finding that 'P'(as the person who is subject to Court of Protection proceedings is known)
lacks mental capacity is the trigger for exposing them to decision-making by others and the …