| Autor: |
Wood, Stacey, Agharkar, Bhushan S. |
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UMKC Law Review; Winter2015, Vol. 84 Issue 2, p411-421, 11p |
| Abstrakt: |
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a highly prevalent cause of neurocognitive disorders resulting in approximately 2.5 million emergency department visits per year. As a result, the prevalence rate of traumatic brain injury is remarkably high among criminal defendants as derived from studies of individuals in prisons and jails. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) estimated that twenty-five to eighty-seven percent of individuals in jail and prison report having experienced a TBI. In this review we discuss common referral questions involving individuals with a history of TBI in criminal litigation. We cover competency to proceed, mental state defenses, and mitigation in capital and non-capital cases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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