Exam 15: Abnormal Psychology and the Law

The court case in which the court ruled that committed patients cannot be forcefully medicated except in emergency situations is ______.

More people are confined to mental institutions for being incompetent to stand trial than for being found not guilty by reason of insanity.

In the case of ______, the United States Supreme Court ruled that mentally ill defendants could sometimes be forcibly medicated to render them competent.

In the trial of Daniel M'Naghten, he claimed that he wanted to kill the prime minister because ______.

The court case in which the court decided that "mental illness [alone] cannot justify a State's locking a person up against his will and keeping him indefinitely in simple custodial confinement" Was ______.

Which statement is true about the prediction of dangerousness by mental health professionals?

Customary sentences that the law provides for particular crimes have no bearing on criminal commitment.

The public perception of the insanity plea is that it is ______ and ______ successful.

People can be committed to psychiatric facilities because of odd behavior.

Which of the following is a major case that bears on the insanity defense?

The confidentiality of a client's communication to a psychotherapist is ______.

John Hinckley's trial for attempting to assassinate President Reagan resulted in a decision that Hinckley was ______.

The legal process of confining a person found not guilty by reason of insanity in a mental institution is called ______.

Which of the following statements is true?

The state has an obligation to provide adequate treatment for people who are involuntarily confined to its psychiatric hospitals.

People must be judged ______ to be psychiatrically (civilly) committed.

Discuss the history of the legal bases of the insanity plea. Include the "irresistible impulse" and inability to tell if one's actions were "right" or "wrong" in your essay.

Classification within a diagnostic category that is associated with aggressive or dangerous behavior, such as antisocial personality, is sufficient for predicting specific violent acts in individuals.

The court case in which the court ruled that a jury has to decide not only if a person was mentally ill, but if the mental illness was the cause of the person's criminal behavior was ______.

The case of a profoundly retarded man who was kept in restraints in a Pennsylvania state hospital because he kept injuring himself was ______.