Ethical and Legal Perspectives in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Foundational Issues
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This book discusses how to deal ethically with people with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) in the police, courts and correctional services. Ethical and legal issues associated with the deficits of individuals with a brain disorders such as FASD are surfacing more and more frequently in criminal proceedings. People with FASD often have not been diagnosed and rarely exhibit any visible evidence of the disorder. It has been argued that this invisible disability puts them in a disadvantaged position in the justice system, since the awareness of this condition is limited. The need to identify and to address FASD more effectively and the many ethical issues this raises within the context of the law is increasingly acknowledged within judicial and legislative branches, as well as in government departments, agencies and community programs that provide services to those with FASD and their caretakers and families. This is the first book to give to elaborate on ethical and legal issuesof FASD.
This book discusses how to deal ethically with people with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) in the police, courts and correctional services. Ethical and legal issues associated with the deficits of individuals with a brain disorders such as FASD are surfacing more and more frequently in criminal proceedings. People with FASD often have not been diagnosed and rarely exhibit any visible evidence of the disorder. It has been argued that this invisible disability puts them in a disadvantaged position in the justice system, since the awareness of this condition is limited. The need to identify and to address FASD more effectively and the many ethical issues this raises within the context of the law is increasingly acknowledged within judicial and legislative branches, as well as in government departments, agencies and community programs that provide services to those with FASD and their caretakers and families. This is the first book to give to elaborate on ethical and legal issuesof FASD.
Raises a number of ethical issues related to the basic foundations of criminal law, and the defense and sentencing of offenders with FASD Explains the implications of FASD in an ethical and legal context Provides suggestions for dealing ethically with offenders with FASD
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Egon Jonsson
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diagnosing FASD origins and implications of FASD FASD in a legal perspective offenders with brain disorders screening for FASD sentencing people with FASD intellectual disability equivalence decision-making capacity social incompetence of FASD fetal alcohol spectrum disorders meconium testing to assist legal system legal measures to prevent fasd risk - needs -responsivity screening in the criminal justice system risk-awareness in criminal culpability