RT Book
T1 Intellectual disability and the death penalty: current issues and controversies
A1 Tassé, Marc J. 1963-
A2 Blume, John H.
LA English
PP Santa Barbara, California Denver, Colorado
PB Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1627044132
AB 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
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN KF9227.C2
SN 9781440840142
SN 1440840148
K1 Capital Punishment : United States
K1 Offenders with mental disabilities : Legal status, laws, etc : United States
K1 People with mental disabilities and crime : United States
K1 Mentally ill : Commitment and detention : United States
K1 Insanity (law) : United States
K1 USA : Todesstrafe : Geistige Behinderung