Legal-medical issues, conflicts and relationships in the field of social control. Topics include mental disorder and criminal liability, diversion of offenders to civil commitment in hospital, insanity, automatism, fitness to stand trial, prediction of dangerousness, regulation of psychoactive drugs. Prerequisite(s): fourth-year Honours standing and 1.0 credit from LAWS 2004 [1.0] (no longer offered), LAWS 2301, LAWS 2302.Seminars three hours a week.
Legal-medical issues, conflicts and relationships in the field of social control. Topics include mental disorder and criminal liability, diversion of offenders to civil commitment in hospital, insanity, automatism, fitness to stand trial, prediction of dangerousness, regulation of psychoactive drugs. Prerequisite(s): fourth-year Honours standing and 1.0 credit from LAWS 2004 [1.0] (no longer offered), LAWS 2301, LAWS 2302.Seminars three hours a week.