The Mad, the Bad, and the Innocent
ISBN-10: 0316494992
ISBN-13: 9780316494991
$37.00
Book Specs
Binding
Trade Cloth
Publisher
Wentworth Press
Published on
Aug 11, 1997
Edition
st Edition
Dimensions
9.50x6.25x1.13 Inches
Weight
0.66 Pounds
About the Book
The New York area's premier forensic psychologist--the expert prosecutors turn to when a defendant claims insanity--looks back over her most celebrated cases to deliver a no-holds-barred critique of recent insanity defense abuses. Zeroing in on cases such as the Menendez brothers and Jeffrey Dahmer, Kirwin shows how unscrupulous defense attorneys and overzealous prosecutors have perverted the true purpose of the insanity defense. of photos.