Exam 15: Abnormal Psychology and the Law

In the case of ______, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the burden of proof in determining competency lies with the defendant.

Aside from threat of violence, another murky area where therapists must balance confidentiality with duty to warn obligations is in treating people who ______.

In a 1979 Massachusetts court case, the court ruled that hospitalized mental patients have ______.

The Durham rule became unworkable for which of the following reasons?

In the case of ______, the United State Supreme Court ruled that a person cannot be kept in a mental hospital awaiting trial longer that it would take to determine if treatment was likely to Restore competency.

Repeated criminal behavior is not sufficient, by itself, to establish a mental disease or defect that might relieve an individual of criminal responsibility.

The case of ______ established certain patient rights, including the right not to be required to perform work that is for the sake of maintaining the facility.

By 1972, the Durham rule was replaced in many jurisdictions by ______.

In the Jones case, the United States Supreme Court ruled that ______.

The public ______ the proportion of defendants acquitted on the basis of insanity and ______ the length of hospitalization of those who are confined.

In modern law, there is (are) ______ major court ruling(s) that bear on the insanity defense.

People who are placed in psychiatric institutions because they were acquitted of a crime by reason of insanity are committed through a process of _______ commitment.

The insanity defense is used in a large number of cases, and usually successfully.

In 1843, Daniel M'Naghten intended to assassinate the prime minister of England, ______.

Overall, the guilty but mentally ill verdict ______.

The Durham ruling on insanity is the cornerstone of modern guidelines regarding use of the insanity defense.

Margot, a college senior who majors in criminology, fancies herself as skilled in predicting dangerousness when she reads case histories of teenage thieves. Which piece of information Would be most instrumental in enhancing Margot's accuracy in predicting violence?

In O'Connor v. Donaldson, Kenneth Donaldson had originally been committed to a psychiatric hospital by ______.

Psychiatric commitment is the same as ______ commitment.

The United States is the only country that permits involuntary psychiatric hospitalization.