Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The significance of law in the everyday lives of children and families / Gary B. Melton -- Fighting fragmentation: coordination of services for children and families / Mark Soler, Carole Shauffer -- Dispositional decisionmaking in the juvenile justice system: an empirical study of the use of offense and offender information / Alan J. Tomkins -- Psychodynamics and the insanity defense: ordinary common sense and heuristic reasoning / Michael L. Perlin -- The psychopath and the definition of "mental disease or defect" under the model penal code test of insanity: a question of psychology or a question of law? / Emily Campbell -- Empirical research regarding the insanity defense: how much do we really know? / James R.P. Ogloff ... [et al.] -- The potential of therapeutic jurisprudence: a new approach to psychology and the law / David B. Wexler, Bruce J. Winick -- Using community mental health centers to provide comprehensive mental health services to local jails / James R.P. Ogloff, Ronald Roesch -- Treatment of the mentally disabled: rethinking the community-first idea / Christopher Slobogin -- Lawyer psychopathology: development, prevalence, and intervention / G. Andrew H. Benjamin, Bruce D. Sales -- The law and psychology of jury instructions / J. Alexander Tanford -- Reviewing the empirical evidence on jury racism: findings of discrimination or discriminatory findings? / Jeffrey E. Pfeifer -- Expanding psycholegal inquiry: the analysis of attitudes toward corporate responsibility / Valerie P. Hans -- A psycholegal and empirical approach to the medical standard of care / Richard L. Wiener.