Criminal Responsibility and the Mentally Ill Offender

FAIN: FT-12086-74

Victor D. Grassian
Los Angeles Harbor College (Wilmington, CA 90744-2311)

To study criminal responsibility and the mentally ill offender. The study would inquire into recent developments in the insanity defense, doctrine of diminished responsibility and "treatment vs. punishment" question, and study the bearing of the recent Supreme Court decision on the death penalty on the treatment of offender.