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34 J. Psychiatry & L. [i] (2006)

handle is hein.journals/jpsych34 and id is 1 raw text is: SPRING 2006 VOLUME 34, NO. 1 THE JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY & LAW I Notes on Contributors 5 Risk Management of Sex Offenders: A Model for Community Intervention Except for drug offenders, the number of sex offenders has grown faster, since 1990, than any other criminal population. It is a common belief that the best way to treat these offenders consists of three approaches: Sex offender treatment programs, medication, and the containment approach. MARY ALICE CONROY, PH.D. 25 Secondary Trauma Associated With State Executions: Testimony Regarding Execution Procedures This article discusses one of the aspects regarding the death penalty, namely, the distress caused to those other than the condemned individual. This includes family members and others close to the person to be executed, including those employed by the state, correction officers, clergy, physicians, and witnesses to the process. AMANDA GIL, MATTHEW B. JOHNSON. PH.D., AND INGRID JOHNSON, ESQ. 37 The Validity of the Colorado Not-Criminally-Responsible Findings The authors examine the characteristics of those whom a jury has found not guilty by reason of insanity and/or not guilty by reason of impaired mental condition in Colorado. The study examines retrospectively those findings which include data obtained from the subsequent hospitalization and initial criminal commitments of those defendants. ROBERT D. MILLER. M.D.. PH.D.. JONATHAN OLIN, M.D.. ELISSA M. BALL. M.D., CHARLES BENNETT, PH.D.. GARY F. BEVEN, M.D.. AND STEVEN E. PITT, D.O. 51 Challenging Expert Testimony on Intelligence and Mental Retardation An assessment of a defendant's intellectual finction is often needed in a criminal trial to assess a number of variables, such as criminal responsibility and competency to stand trial. The author examines a number of variables which have led the U.S. Supreme Court to hold, in the case of Atkins v. Virginia (2002) that it is unconstitutional to execute a mentally retarded defendant. I. BRUCE FRUMKIN. PH.D.. ABFP