Box 11
Contains 28 Results:
Copies of letters from third parties
Notes
Cases (crime and mental illness)
Includes reprint of the Durham case (1954) in which Judge Bazelon “adopting a new test of criminal responsibility, held that if a defendant’s unlawful act was the product of mental disease or mental defect, he was not criminally responsible.”
Notes on post-Durham cases
Law Journal and other articles discussing the effects of the Durham ruling
Articles on the relation of psychiatry and law
Grant Application: Foundation’s Fund for Research in Psychiatry, 1959
Request for funding for a research project culminating in a book on criminal responsibility. David L. Bazelon is named as Principal Investigator and David T. Bazelon as chief research and writing assistant.
Newspaper clippings on crime and mental illness (I)
Newspaper clippings on crime and mental illness (II)
“The Awesome Decision,” Saturday Evening Post, 23 Jan 1960
“The Interface of Law and the Behavioral Sciences,” New England Journal of Medicine, 26 Nov 1964
“The Awful Decision,” David L. Bazelon, Saturday Evening Post, January 1960
Includes drafts of the article, notes, and correspondence
“Reflections in Psychiatry and the Law” [n.d., location unknown]
“Remarks on Psychiatry and the Law,” American Psychiatric Association, Cleveland OH, 30 Sep 1957
Meeting of the District of Columbia Bar Association, 12 Nov 1957
“Psychopathy: Deep Mental Disease or Mild Abnormality of Behavior?” American Psychiatric Association, 28 Apr 1959
“The responsibility of the Accused—and the Psychiatrist” New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry, 11 Jan 62
“Law Observance and Individual Rights,” Federal Bar Association, 30 Apr 1963
“Mental retardation: Some Legal and Moral Considerations,” [location unknown], 14 Mar 1965
“Alcohol and Alcoholism: Some Judicial Impressions,” [location unknown], 11 Jun 1965
President’s Panel on Mental Retardation: Report of Task Force on Law , 1962
David L. Bazelon served as Chairman of the Task Force. File includes drafts of the Task Force’s Report and correspondence
Brandeis Memorial Lecture, March 1960
Includes drafts and typescript of lecture delivered by David L. Bazelon at Brandeis University, editorial correspondence with The Atlantic Monthly regarding the magazine’s subsequent publication of the lecture, and correspondence documenting the reception of the lecture.