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Rethinking criminal responsibility from a critical disability perspective: The abolition of insanity/incapacity acquittals and unfitness to plead, and beyond

Tina Minkowitz Center for the Human Rights of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry < http://www.chrusp.org> and World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry < http://www.wnusp.net>Correspondence[email protected]
Pages 434-466 | Published online: 13 Mar 2015

List of References

UN Treaties

  • Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, opened for signature 30 March 2007, 2515 UNTS 3 (entered into force 3 May 2008).
  • Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, opened for signature 1 March 1980, 1249 UNTS 13 (entered into force 3 September 1981).

UN Treaty Body Materials

  • Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, General Comment No 1: Article 12: Equal recognition before the law, 11th sess, UN Doc CRPD/C/GC/1 (11 April 2014).
  • Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Concluding Observations on Argentina, 8th sess, UN Doc CRPD/C/ARG/CO/1 (27 September 2012).
  • Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Concluding Observations on Australia, 10th sess, UN Doc CRPD/C/AUS/CO/1 (4 October 2013).
  • Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Concluding Observations on Austria, 10th sess, UN Doc CRPD/C/AUT/CO/1 (13 September 2013).
  • Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Concluding Observations on Azerbaijan, 11th sess, UN Doc CRPD/C/AZE/CO/1 (11 April 2014).
  • Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Concluding Observations on Belgium, 12th sess, UN Doc CRPD/C/BEL/CO/1 (3 October 2014).
  • Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Concluding Observations on China, 8th sess, UN Doc CRPD/C/CHN/CO/1 (27 September 2012).
  • Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Concluding Observations on Costa Rica, 11th sess, UN Doc CRPD/C/CRI/CO/1 (12 May 2014).
  • Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Concluding Observations on Denmark, 12th sess, UN Doc CRPD/C/DNK/CO/1 (3 October 2014).
  • Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Concluding Observations on Ecuador, 12th sess, UN Doc CRPD/C/ECU/CO/1 (3 October 2014).
  • Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Concluding Observations on El Salvador, 10th sess, UN Doc CRPD/C/SLV/CO/1 (13 September 2013).
  • Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Concluding Observations on Hungary, 8th sess, UN Doc CRPD/C/HUN/CO/1 (27 September 2012).
  • Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Concluding Observations on Korea, 12th sess, UN Doc CRPD/C/KOR/CO/1 (3 October 2014).
  • Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Concluding Observations on Mexico, 12th sess, UN Doc CRPD/C/MEX/CO/1 (3 October 2014).
  • Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Concluding Observations on New Zealand, 12th sess, UN Doc CRPD/C/NZL/CO/1 (3 October 2014).
  • Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Concluding Observations on Paraguay, 9th sess, UN Doc CRPD/C/PRY/CO/1 (15 May 2013).
  • Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Concluding Observations on Peru, 7th sess, UN Doc CRPD/C/PER/CO/1 (9 May 2012).
  • Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Concluding observations on Spain, 6th sess, UN Doc CRPD/C/ESP/CO/1 (2011).
  • Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Concluding Observations on Sweden, 11th sess, UN Doc CRPD/C/SWE/CO/1 (11 April 2014).
  • Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Concluding Observations on Tunisia, 5th sess, UN Doc CRPD/C/TUN/CO/1 (29 April 2011).
  • Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Observations on the Standard Minimum Rules on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UN Doc UNODC/CCPCJ/EG.6/2014/INF/4 (29 November 2013).
  • Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Statement on article 14 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 12th sess (September 2014) <http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=15183&LangID=E>.

UN Resolutions

  • Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, adopted by the First United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, UN Doc A/CONF/6/C.1/L.1 (30 August 1955), ESC res 663C, 24th sess, UN ESCOR Supp No 1, UN Doc E/3048 (31 July 1957), amended ESC res 2076, 62nd sess, UN ESCOR Supp No 1, UN Doc E/5988 (13 May 1977).

UN Reports

  • Juan E Méndez, Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, UN Doc A/HRC/22/53 (1 February 2013).
  • Juan E Méndez, Interim Report of the Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, UN Doc A/68/295 (9 August 2013).
  • Manfred Nowak, Interim report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, UN Doc A/63/175 (28 July 2008).
  • Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Thematic Study on enhancing awareness and understanding of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UN Doc A/HRC/10/48 (26 January 2009).

Other International Materials

Regional Treaty Body Materials

  • Committee for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities, General Observation of the Committee for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities on the need to interpret Article I.2(b) in fine of the Inter-American Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities in the context of Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, OEA/Ser.L/XXIV.3.1, CEDDIS/doc.12(I-E/11) rev.1 (28 April 2011).

Domestic Law

  • American Law Institute, Model Penal Code and Commentaries (Official Draft and Revised Comments) (1962).

Secondary Sources Legal Writings

NGO Materials

Articles

  • Fleur Beaupert and Linda Steele (2014) ‘Submission to United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Draft General Comment on Article 12 – Equal Recognition Before the Law’ <http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/CRPD/GC/BeaupertSteele_Art.12.doc>.
  • Daniel Hazen and Tina Minkowitz (2012) ‘A Discussion Paper on Policy Issues at the Intersection of the Mental Health System and the Prison System’, prepared for the World Network of Survivors of Psychiatry, <http://www.wnusp.net/documents/2012/WNUSP_Discussion_Paper_Prisons_MH.pdf>.
  • Arnold H. Loewy (2009) ‘The Two Faces of Insanity’ 42 Texas Tech Law Review 515.
  • Wanda D McCaslin (ed) (2005) Justice as Healing: Indigenous Ways, Living Justice Press.
  • Tina Minkowitz (2006) ‘The Paradigm of Supported Decision-Making’, paper presented at Eötvos Loránd University, Bárczi Gustáv Faculty of Special Education, Budapest, 30 November.
  • Tina Minkowitz (2007) ‘The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Right to be Free from Nonconsensual Psychiatric Interventions’ 34 Syracuse Journal of International Law & Commerce 405.
  • Tina Minkowitz (2010) ‘Norms and Implementation of CRPD Article 12’ <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2037452>.
  • Tina Minkowitz (2012a) ‘CRPD Advocacy by the World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry: The Emergence of an User/Survivor Perspective in Human Rights’ <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/abstract_id=2326668>.
  • Tina Minkowitz (2012b) ‘No Discriminación, Capacidad Jurídica y Derecho a No Ser Sometido a Tratamiento Medico Obligatorio’ in Agustina Palacios and Francisco Barrifi (eds) Capacidad Jurídica, Discapacidad y Derechos Humanos (Ediar).
  • Tina Minkowitz (2014b) ‘CRPD Article 12 and the Alternative to Functional Capacity: Preliminary Thoughts towards Transformation’ <http://ssrn.com/abstract=2371939>.
  • Tina Minkowitz (2014c) ‘A response to the report by Juan e. Méndez, Special rapporteur on Torture, Dealing with Torture in the context of Health care, as it Pertains to nonconsensual Psychiatric interventions,’ in Torture in Healthcare Settings: Reflections on the Special Rapporteur on Torture’s 2013 Thematic Report, Washington College of Law, Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.
  • Stephen J Morse and Morris B Hoffman (2008) ‘The Uneasy Entente Between Legal Insanity and Mens Rea: Beyond Clark v. Arizona’ 97 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 1017.
  • VF Nourse (2003) ‘Reconceptualizing Criminal Law Defenses’ 151 University of Pennsylvania. Law Review 1691.
  • Gerard Quinn with Anna Arnstein-Kerslake (2013) ‘Restoring the “Human” in “Human Rights” – Personhood and Doctrinal Innovation in the UN Disability Convention,’ in Conor Gearty and Costas Douzinas (eds) The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights Law, Cambridge University Press.
  • Michael L Perlin (2008) ‘Representing Criminal Defendants in Incompetency and Insanity Cases: Some Therapeutic Jurisprudence Dilemmas’ New York Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series 07/08(30), <http://ssrn.com/abstract=1120891>
  • Kay Pranis (2007) ‘Restorative Values’ in Gerry Johnstone and Daniel W. Van Ness (eds) Handbook of Restorative Justice, Willan Publishing.
  • Kay Pranis et al (2003) Peacemaking Circles: From Crime to Community, Living Justice Press.
  • Christopher Slobogin (2000) ‘An End to Insanity: Recasting the Role of Mental Disability in Criminal Cases’ 86 Virginia Law Review 1199.
  • Christopher Slobogin (2010a) ‘Eliminating Mental Disability as a Legal Criterion in Deprivation of Liberty Cases: The Impact of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability on the Insanity Defense, Civil Commitment, and Competency Law’ Vanderbilt University Law School Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper Number 14–23, <http://ssrn.com/abstract=2461279>.
  • Christopher Slobogin (2010b) ‘A Defense of the Integrationist Test as a Replacement for the Special Defense of Insanity’ 42 Texas Tech Law Review 523.
  • William J Stuntz (2008) ‘Unequal Justice’ 121 Harvard Law Review 1969.

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