BackgroundThis paper reviews current research on workplace violence in the USA and offers
suggestions concerning the roles that mental health professionals with forensic expertise …

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is believed to be a degenerative brain disease
characterized by repetitive brain trauma resulting in a specific pattern of neuropathological …

… Health Services, in a letter, plus attachments, to Samuel Jan Brakel (Oct 11 1999) (on file with
author). … of the characteristics of these NGRI conditional release laws, see Samuel Brakel, …

The licensing and admission power over lawyers vested in each of the fifty state jurisdictions,
ninety-three federal districts and eleven circuits, has led to a hodgepodge of standards for …

" Privatizing" functions previously performed by government (its" public" agencies) is not a
new idea. It is an idea, however, that in this country1 has gained considerable ascendancy …

… 1971) [hereinafter Brakel & Rock] (see for a history of the ABA/ABF's efforts in this area); see
… drugs, at least for all serious mental illnesses, see Brakel & Davis, supra note 25, at 444 n.…

To the Editor: We would like to thank the authors for this valuable contribution. 1 The
authors appropriately point out that the bulk of the regulatory framework for the provision of …

Introduction r I"'HE concept and practice of diversion is neither novel nor•*■ esoteric. Indeed,
the exercise of some forms of discretion by criminal justice officials—ranging from the initial …

It is a fundamental tenet of the criminal law that the present mental condition of. an accused
may be sufficiently disabling to require postponement of the proceedings against him …

On December 7, 1981, Darrell Burch wandered along a Florida highway, bruised, bloodied,
and disoriented. 1 A good Samaritan took him to a private mental health center in …