Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
unusualness
Raymond W. Novaco
University of California, Irvine
Abnormal Behavior
P102, summer 2015
social deviance
faulty perceptions or interpretations of reality
significant personal distress
maladaptive or self-defeating behavior
dangerousness
Dangerousness: A Dilemma
dangerousness
9/1/2015
Itzcoatl Ocampo
homeless killing series 2011-12
Kipland Kinkel
Springfield, Oregon
He told his friend Dusty Saul, If I ever get really mad, Im going to
hit the cafeteria with my .22
history of mental illness in family; made statements of being
tormented by voices inside my head; told him to hurt people
9/1/2015
The first major legal test of the insanity defense is referred to as the
MNaghten rule, based on a case in England in 1843 of a Scotsman,
Daniel MNaghten, who had intended to assassinate the Prime
Minister of England, Sir Robert Peel.
In the US in 1844, a Massachusetts Chief Justice concluded that the
mind of a prisoner, Abner Rodgers, was in a diseased and unsound
state when he murdered a prison warden, due to an irresistible and
in controllable impulse, thus not the act of a voluntary agent.
The another major case that helped lay the foundation for the
modern insanity defense was Durham v. United States of 1954. The
criminal act was a product of the mental disease or defect.
Predicting Dangerousness
actual
no
yes
predicted
no
true negative
false negative
yes
false positive
true positive
9/1/2015
civil commitment
incompetence to stand trial; unfit to plead
insanity defense; not guilt by reason of insanity
guilty but mentally disordered; mitigated sentence severity
prison transfers to the mental hospitals
- mentally disordered prisoner
- hospital commitment as condition of parole
- civil commitment of sexually violent predator
community placement parole revocation
23%
5%
32%
15%
6%
9/1/2015
danger to others
due to a mental disorder, person intends to cause
harm to someone or to engage in dangerous acts
with gross disregard for safety of others
threats of physical harm against particular people
attempts to harm certain individuals
means available to carry out threats or attempts
(e,g, firearms or other weapons)
9/1/2015
Conservatorship -- LPS
someone gravely disabled, after the 5250 is upheld by
probable cause hearing, may be placed on a temporary
conservatorship (deputy public guardian is assigned
and must approve discharge plan)
30 day investigative process (public defender)
9/1/2015
Right to Treatment
(founded 1852)
Kenneth Donaldson.
Donaldson points to the U.S. Supreme Court decision that ruled that
people who are considered mentally ill but not dangerous cannot be
confined against their will if they can be maintained safely in the
community.