Table of Contents

Contents About the Editors Contributors Preface to Volume II Acknowledgements Introduction to Volume II Section I Civil Law Issues Chapter 1 Civil Law: Structure and Procedures Grant H. Morris Chapter 2 Hospitalization and Civil Commitment in England and Wales Martin Zinkler and Stefan Priebe Chapter 3 Hospitalization and Civil Commitment of Individuals with Psychopathic Disorders in Germany, Russia and the United States Elmar Habermeyer, Ulrike Rachvoll, Alan R. Felthous, Alexander O. Bukhanowsky and Roman Gleyzer Chapter 4 Should Psychopathy Qualify for Preventive Outpatient Commitment? Bruce J. Winick, Charles LoPiccolo, Wlly Anand and Lester Hartswick Chapter 5 The Clinician's Duty to Warn or Protect: In the United States, England, Canada, New Zealand, France and Spain Alan R. Felthous, Roy O'Shaughnessy, Jay Kuten, Irene Francois and Juan Medrano Chapter 6 Evaluating Parents in Child Custody and Abuse Cases and the Utility of Psychological Measures in Screening for Parental Psychopathy or Antisocial Personality Stephen B. Billick and Michael B. Jackson Chapter 7 The Management of Fitness for Duty in the United States Military David M. Walker and James A. Bourgeois Chapter 8 The Psychopath in the Workplace: Disability, Direct Threat and the ADA Lauren Wylonis and Robert Sadoff Chapter 9 Disability and Sociopathy Albert Drukteinis Chapter 10 Personal Injury Litigation in the United States and India: Acquired Psychopathy Robert P. Granacher and Manish A. Fozdar Section II Criminal Law Issues Chapter 11 The Criminal Law: Structures and Procedures Robert Lloyd Goldstein Chapter 12 Legal Competencies in Relation to Confession Evidence Gisli H. Gudjonsson and Thomas Grisso Chapter 13 Competence to Stand Trial and Psychopathic Disorders: Legal and Clinical Perspectives from the USA J. Richard Ciccone Chapter 14 Criminal Forensic Evaluations in Germany Henning Sas, Hans-Ludwig Krober and Alan R. Felthous Chapter 15 Insanity in Austria: The Position of Psychopathy in Austrian Forensic Psychiatry Thomas Stompe, Patrick Frottier and Hans Schanda Chapter 16 Psychopathic Disorders and the Criminal Law in Switzerland Marc Graff and Volker Dittmann Chapter 17 Insanity, Diminished Responsibility and Personality Disorder in England and Wales Don Grubin Chapter 18 The Insanity Defense and Psychopathic Disorders in the United S States and Australia David Greenberg and Alan R. Felthous Chapter 19 Psychopathy, Diminished Capacity and Responsibility Mohan Nair and Robert Weinstock Chapter 20 Non-Insanity Psychological Evidence Ralph Slovenko Chapter 21 Criminal Sentencing: The Role of Mental Health Professionals with Special Consideration for Psychopathic Disorders Alan R. Felthous Chapter 22 Psychopathy and the Death Penalty in the United States James K. Wolfson Chapter 23 The Death Penalty: A Psychiatrist's View from Europe John Gunn Chapter 24 The Role of Hospitalization in the Management of Prisoners with Psychopathic Disorders Norbert Konrad Chapter 25 The Psychopath in Prison Julio Arboleda-Florez Chapter 26 The Patuxent Institution: A Unique Approach to Psychiatry and the Law James R. Coldren Chapter 27 The Treatment of Psychopathic Patients in the Netherlands Daan van Beek and Uta Kroger Chapter 28 Probation and Parole: History, Policy Change and Mental Health in England and Wales Anthony Goodman Chapter 29 Ethical Considerations Involving Psychopathic Disorders Henry Weinstein, Erika Bath, Elizabeth Ford, Manuel Lopez-Leon and Scott Soloway Section III Special Issues Chapter 30 Malingering and Psychopathic Disorders Philip Resnick and Stephen Zuchowski Chapter 31 Culture and Psychopathy in the Forensic Context Wen-Shing Tseng, Ezra Griffith, Pedro Ruiz and Alec Buchanan Chapter 32 The Economics of Crime Rooted in Psychopathic Disorders: Aspects of Law, Public Policy, Rehabilitation and Faith-Based Programs Jean H. Hollenshead, Frederick R. Parker, Harvey W. Rubin and Timothy M. Shaughnessy Chapter 33 Training and Education for Mental Health Professionals Rusty Reeves, Richard Rosner, Dominique Bourget and John Gunn Chapter 34 The Importance of Quality in Future Directions Alan R. Felthous and Henning Sas Table of Cases Author Index Subject Index

About the Author

Alan R. Felthous, M.D., is Professor and Director of Forensic Psychiatry in the Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Saint Louis University School of Medicine. He received his Bachelor of Sciences degree at the University of Washington and his medical doctorate at the University of Louisville School of Medicine before interning at Roosevelt Hospital in New York city and completing a residency in psychiatry at McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School. After two years as a staff psychiatrist at the Naval Regional Medical Center in Oakland, Dr. Felthous joined the staff at the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas. For nearly 15 years, he was Chief o the Forensic Services, the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, where he was the Marie B. Gale centennial Professor of Psychiatry. Before coming to Saint Louis University, Dr. Felthous was Director of Forensic Psychiatry at Southern Illinoi8s University School of Medicine and Medical Director of Chester Mental Health Center, the maximum security forensic hospital for the state of Illinois. Dr. Felthous is President of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Senior Editor of behavioral Science sand the Law and Past President of the American board of Forensic Psychiatry. His research, scholarly and teaching interests focus on clinical aggression, the psychopathology of criminal behavior, legal requirements of clinicians in managing potentially violent patients, and jail and prison suicide. Henning Sas, M.D., is currently Medical Director and Chairman of the board of Directors at the University Hospital of the University of Technology (RWTH) in Aachen/Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany. He studied medicine at the universities of Kiel, Vienna and Mainz. After passing the state examination in Kiel and receiving his medical doctorate in Mainz, he was a resident in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Heidelberg. Having completed his training in clinical psychiatry and in psychotherapy, he concentrated on forensic psychiatry, general psychopathology, diagnostic research and personality disorders. His habilitation on Psychopathie, Soziopathie, and Dissozialitat (Psychopathy, Sociopathy and Dissocial Behaviors) was published as a Springer monograph in 1987. He was then appointed Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, after which he was the Chair of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the medical faculty in Aachen for 10 years, before he was appointed to his current position. His research interests remain focused on forensic psychiatry, especially in the field of personality disorders. During his academic career, he was President of the German Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Nervous Diseases (DGPPN) and of the Association of European Psychiatrists (AEP). He is editor or co-editor of several scientific journals and member of numerous boards of scientific organizations including the European Brain Council and the Research Council of the German Ministry for Science, Research and technology.