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Author:
Tasse, Marc J., author.
Title:
Intellectual disability and the death penalty : current issues and controversies / Marc J. Tasse and John H. Blume.
Publisher:
Praegeran imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
viii, 176 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Subject:
Capital punishment--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.
Insanity (Law)--United States.
Capital punishment.
Insanity (Law)
Mentally ill--Commitment and detention.
Offenders with mental disabilities--Legal status, laws, etc.
People with mental disabilities and crime.
United States.
Other Authors:
Blume, John H., author.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
ISBN:
1440840148
9781440840142
OCLC:
(OCoLC)929588826
LCCN:
2017037271
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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