Module 5 & Chapter 5

Question 1

Fundamental Justice

Answer 1

Commands for the greater good of society

Question 2

Civil Commitment

Answer 2

Focuses on health and law (confining someone in a mental hospital against will)

Question 3

Criminal Commitment

Answer 3

Focuses on criminality and law (confining a person who is not guilty due to mental illness)

Question 4

Informal Commitment Criteria

Answer 4

Temporary, no court order

Question 5

Formal Commitment Criteria

Answer 5

Court order, person has right to object

Question 6

Community Treatment Orders

Answer 6

Stipulates the conditions of release that the individual must adhere to

Question 7

Community Treatment Orders are controversial because…

Answer 7

Forces people to be treated

Question 8

Base Rate Problem

Answer 8

Difficult to make predictions about infrequent or rare events

Question 9

Actuarial Prediction

Answer 9

Using statisticial formulae that can predict dangerousness

Question 10

Purpose of Criminal Commitment

Answer 10

Upholds common law legal principles that to be criminal ones action must involve men’s rea and actus rea

Question 11

The Insanity Defence came from..

Answer 11

Daniel M’Naghten

Question 12

The Review board must consist of

Answer 12

judge, psychologist and one other

Question 13

4 Documents that govern medical research

Answer 13

Nuremberg code
Helsinki
Human Subjects
Tri-Council