Mental Health and the Law - Midterm
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- sociolegal studies
- using a mutlidisciplinary framework in the study of the law
- critical legal studies
- 1970's movement that viewed laws as tools of oppresion employed by the powerful to control the less powerful
- feminist jurisprudence
- studies the law as a way to maintain male-centered values
- therapeutic jurisprudence
- studying the law, at least in part, in terms of the impact involvement in the legal system has on mental health
- law and economics
- school of thought which maintains that the goal of law is to maximize efficiency and prosperity
- forensic psychology
- the application of the methods and procedures of psychology to the legal system
- trial consultants
- social scientists who specialize in the applicationof psychological knowledge to jury selection and litigation strategies
- dialectic analysis
- an approach that studies the tension between competing values
- due process model
- places primary value on protecting the rights of citizens, including criminal suspects and on the assumption of innocence
- crime control model
- places primary importance on efficient detection and punishment of offenders
- ex post facto
- clause which forbids the enactment of new laws which extend punishment for past crimes
- double jepardy
- clause prohibits a second prosecution an offense a person has been cleared of once
- notification law
- laws which require notification of communities when sex-offender is released into their community
- sexual predator laws
- laws which allow the state to have a high risk sex offender committed indefinitely to a mental hospital upon release from prison.
- equality
- the same treatment in the criminal justice system regardless of wealth, status, or power
- principle of proportionality
- the punishment should be consistent to the severity of the crime
- discretion
- the use of judgement to determine appropriate sentances
- sentancing disparity
- the tendancy of different judges to administer a variety of penalties for the same crime
- determinate sentancing
- the offense determines the sentance and the courts have very little discretion
- jury nullification
- the right of the jury to acquit a legally guilty defendent if the jury feels that the defendent is morally blameless for the crime
- settlement negotiation
- the plantiff and defendent meet outside of court and agree to a resolution
- amicus curiae
- a brief filed by a party who is not part of the court proceedings to argue some point on behalf of one of the sides
- case law
- law made by rulings in individual cases
- stare decisis
- tendancy of judges to be reluctant to make decisions that contradict earlier decisions
- basic scientist
- a scientist who conducts research in the interest of knowledge not due to real world applications
- applied scientist
- dedicated to applying knowledge to real world problems. trial consultant is an example of the applied scientist
- policy evaluator
- use of methodological skills to assess how well an intervention has worked
- advocate
- acting on behalf of a group and working to change society
- empowerment
- the goal of helping disenfranchized members of society gain greater power over their personal or collective situations