February 17, 2005

6. Relevant syndromes and differential diagnoses.               

            ASP -Personality disorders

            Depressive disorders

            Psychotic disorders

            PTSD

            Sexual abuse

            Battered women syndrome

            Rape trauma syndrome

            Neurological impairment

 

*Human Rights Watch Study 2003 - Ill-Equipped: U.S. Prisons and Offenders with Mental Illness

 

 *Lovell, D. & Jemelka, R. (1998).  Coping with mental illness in prisons.  Family and Community Health, 21(3), 54-66.

 

 

 

*Schnapp, W.B. and Cannedy, R. (1998).  “Offenders with Mental Illness: Mental Health and Criminal Justice Best Practices”.  Administration and Policy in Mental Health.  25(4), 463-466.

 

*Lizabeth Roemer & Leslie Lebowitz, Understanding Severe Traumatization, Vol. 20, No. 1, Kentucky DPA’s The Advocate, pg. 7, January 1989.

*Donald Dutton, Witnessing Parental Violence as a Traumatic Experience Shaping the Abusive Personality, in CHILDREN EXPOSED TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, at 59-84, (Haworth Press, Inc., 2000).

 

*Freedman, David - Predictions of Future Dangerousness- Dr. Patterson to check if it is on reserve.

 

*Keefe, David - Mental Health Issues and the Defense of Capital Case

**Teplin, L.A., Abram, K.M. & McClelland, G.M. (1997).  Mentally disordered women in jail: Who receives services?  American Journal of Public Health, 87(4), 604-609.

**Mark Cunningham, Ph.D., Jeannie Sternberg, J.D., & Kathleen Wayland, Ph.D., Psychologist, A Closer Look at Anti-Social Personality Disorder, presented at the National Legal Aid and Defender Association’s, Life in the Balance IX seminar, March 1997.

**Mark Cunningham, Ph.D., & Kathleen Wayland, Ph.D., Psychologist, Understanding and Explaining Psychological Trauma, presented at the National Legal Aid and Defender Association’s, Life in the Balance IX seminar, March 1997.

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February 24, 2005

7.  Psychological Testing - Dr. Pamela  Auble

 

   Drug and Alcohol Use, Abuse, and Dependence

 

*Niland, J. (2003). IQ, Psychological and Personality Tests: What They Mean & When to Use Them.  National Legal Aid and Defenders Association – Life in the Balance – March 15-18, 2003. Austin, Texas.

 

*Marlowe, D.B.  (2001).  Coercive Treatment of Substance Abusing Criminal Offenders.  Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice.  1(1), 65-73.

 

*RachBeisel, J., Scott, J. & Dixson, L. (1999).  Co-Occuring Severe Mental Illness and Substance Abuse Disorders: A Review of Recent Research.  Psychiatric Services, Vol. 50, 1427-1434.

 

**Dale Watson, Ph.D., & Kathy Wayland, Ph.D., Neuropsychological and Other Testing, presented at the National Legal Aid and Defender 

 

Dr. Patterson - Will provide overview reading for substance abuse

March 3, 2005

8. Assessment: interviewing and record collection

            Biopsychosocial

Genograms

            Identifying, collecting, and assimilating

            Identifying experts and interacting with

            Culture and diversity

            Report preparation

Alternative sentencing

 

*Converse, K. (2003). Social History Investigations.  National Legal Aid and Defenders Association – Life in the Balance – March 15-18, 2003. Austin, Texas.

 

**Madden, R.G. and Parody, M. (1997).  Between a legal rock and a practice hard place: Legal issues in “recovered memory” cases.  Clinical Social Work Journal, 25, 223-247.

 

*Robert Weimer, Fundamentals of Biopsychosocial Evaluation in Forensic Cases, Vol. 18, No.6, Kentucky’s DPA’s, The Advocate, pg. 11, November 1996.

*Frank H. Einstein, Document Checklist for Mitigation Analysis, presented at the National Legal Aid and Defender’s Life in the Balance X, March 1993.

 

March 10, 2005 –

 

9. Mitigation

            Theme development and implementation

            Cultural and environmental factors

            Identifying theories that reduce culpability

            Report preparation

 

Prof. Stephens will review readings and likely add Santa Clare Law Review

 

* Stetler, Russell - Why capital cases require mitigation specialists.

 

*Miller, Jill - Expanding the Spheres of Mitigation Evidence - Fight for Life - Issue 7.

 **A collection of materials by Jill Miller, MSW, Lee Norton, Ph.D., and Kathy Wayland, Ph.D., presented at Life in the Balance VIII, St. Louis, MO, March 1996.

**Frank H. Einstein, Document Checklist for Mitigation Analysis, presented at the National Legal Aid and Defender’s Life in the Balance X, March 1993.

*Katy C. O’Donnell J.D., Presenting Mitigation Evidence in the Guilt Phase, presented at the National Legal Aid and Defender’s Life in the Balance.VIII, March 1996.

*Craig Haney, The Social Context of Capital Murder: Social Histories and the Logic of Mitigation. 35 Santa Clara L. Rev.547 (1995)

*Mark Cunningham, Ph.D., Future Dangerousness, presented at the National Legal Aid and Defender Associations - Life in the Balance.

 

*Andrews, A.B. (1991).  Social work expert testimony regarding mitigation in capital sentencing proceedings.  Social Work, 36(5).

 

*Guin, Noble, and Merrill – From Misery to Mission: Forensic social workers on multidisciplinary mitigation teams

 

*Madden and Wayne – Social work and the law: A therapeutic jurisprudence perspective.

March 17, 2005-Midterm Due

10. Midterm Test Review and Break out preparation for class exercise.

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March 24, 2005 - Spring Break

March 31, 2005

11. Class Exercise

 

*Gothard, S. (1989a).  Power in the court: The social worker as an expert witness.  Social Work, 34, 65.

 

*Saltzman, A. and Furman, D.M. (1999).  Law in Social Work Practice.  Chicago: Nelson-Hall. Chapters 2 and 3

*Jodie English, Presenting Effects of Psychological Trauma to the Jury, presented at the National Legal Aid and Defender Association’s, Life in the Balance XII seminar, March 2000.

 

April 7, 2005

11. Testifying  - 

            Preparing the expert –

            Report preparation

            Presenting mitigation

            Case Example Video

 

Jails and Prisons - Prof. Stephens -Will look for guess speaker

*Cait Clarke, Problem-Solving Defender in the Community: Expanding the Conceptual and Institutional Boundaries of Providing Counsel to the Poor, The Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Vol. XIV, No. 2, Winter 2001.
[See: week 4]

 

**Jenkins, L.A. (1995).  Pre-trial diversion strategies for drug involved offenders: Focus on social work involvement.  Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 22, 129-140

 

*Lamb, R.H., Weinberger, L.E., & Gross, B.H. (1999).  Community Treatment of Severely Mentally Ill Offenders Under the Jurisdiction of the Criminal Justice System: A Review.  Psychiatric Services, Vol. 50, 907 - 913.

 

**Lindhorst, D.M. (1999).  Treatment of Forensic Patients: An Expanding Role for Public Psychiatric Hospitals.  Health and Social Work.  24(1), 18-27.

 

*Rosekes, E., Feldman, R., Arrington, S., & Leisher, M. (1999).  A Model Program for the treatment of Mentally Ill Offenders in the Community.  Community Mental Health Journal, Vol. 35, 461-472. 

 

*Steadman, H.J., Morris, S.M. & Dennis, D.L. (1995).  The diversion of mentally ill persons from jails to community-based services: A profile of programs.  American Journal of Public Health, 85(12), 1630-1635.

 

*Talbot, Margaret - The Executioner's I.Q. Test - The New York Times Magazine - June 29, 2003.

 April 14, 2005

12. Interventions and venues -Guess Speakers

Mental health courts

Drug courts

 

April 21, 2005 - Paper Due!

13. Review and Integration

 

April 29, 2004

14. Final Available Online until May 4, 2004

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