Survival of the Sanest: Order and Disorder in a Pre-trial Psychiatric Clinic

by Robert J. Menzies

In this study of pre-trial clinical assessment, Robert Menzies examines a key element in our system of criminal justice and finds is wanting. His book calls into question the entire process by which the state determines that defendants are - or are not - mentally fit to stand trial.
The Metropolitan Toronto Forensic Service (METFORS) is a multi-disciplinary assessment agency which opened in 1978. During its first year of operation METFORS practitioners...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802067379
• ISBN13: 9780802067371
• Release Date: November 1989
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher