ASSOCIATION
FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF PHILOSOPHY & PSYCHIATRY
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
25th Anniversary Annual Meeting
May 18 & 19, 2013
San Francisco, California
Theme: PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES IN CRIME & MENTAL ILLNESS
Conference Co-Chairs:
Christian Perring, Ph.D. Dowling College
Peter Zachar, Ph.D. Auburn University Montgomery
John Z Sadler, M.D. UT Southwestern Medical Center
For better or for worse, crime, criminality, and mental illness have been
connected in Western societies in spite of the Enlightenment effort to parse
out different kinds of social deviance For the 25th Anniversary meeting of
AAPP, our theme focuses on the complex relationship between the concepts of
“criminal vice” and “mental disorder.” The relationships between criminality
and mental disorder can be organized around 10 themes: (1) mental disorder as a
criminal excuse or compromise in criminal/moral responsibility; (2) the “mad
versus bad” problem – whether some mental disorders such as psychopathy are
moral failings that are being labeled diseases as well as the converse –
whether criminality is a disease; (3) the proper role of mental health care in
criminal justice settings – adult and juvenile; (4) the differing conceptual
and epistemological standpoints of law and psychiatry (for example the nature
of evidence in jury trials
versus experiments); (5) conceptual and ethical issues in forensic psychiatry
and psychology – questions ranging from whose interests does the practitioner
serve, to capacity to stand trial or be executed, to duties to warn; (6) the
ethics of psychiatric research with criminal offenders; (7) issues of consent
and voluntarism in psychiatric treatment of criminal offenders (8) particular
issues concerning the social control of deviance, such as sexual predator laws,
the role of punishment, rehabilitation, containment, and deterrence in penal
approaches, and as well as care of the mentally ill in penal systems; (9)
issues around the doctor-patient relationship in working with mentally ill
offenders in inpatient and outpatient settings; and (10) miscellaneous issues
including conceptual issues in criminal profiling, the concepts of victim and
victimization, the use of the DSM in forensic settings, and the issue of
forgiveness of offenders in mental health
settings. Abstracts may address one or more of these aspects.
Full Presentations will be strictly limited to 20 minutes, followed by 10
minutes for discussion.
A Poster Session is offered for a limited number of abstracts in additional to
Full Presentations. Abstracts will be blindly reviewed, so the author's
identifying information should be attached in a coversheet separate from the
abstract text, giving names, degrees, academic affiliations, and e-mail
addresses of authors and co-authors
Abstracts should be 500-600 words and should be sent via email by October 15,
2012 to both Christian Perring (cperring@yahoo.com)
and Peter Zachar (pzachar@aum.edu).
Notices of acceptance or rejection will be distributed in December.
http://alien.dowling.edu/~cperring/aapp/AAPP2013CFA.pdf
