93-11-12 Public Service Announcement on Lecture by Thomas Grisso

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

     "Challenges to a Retributive Legal Response to Adolescent
Homicide" will be the theme of a public lecture Thursday, Nov. 18
at 3:30 p.m. in Jefferson Hall at the University of Virginia. 
Thomas Grisso, director of forensic training and research at the
University of Massachusetts Medical Center, will be the speaker.
     
     Grisso is past president of the American Psychology-Law
Society, a member of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on
Mental Health and the Law, and has received the annual Award for
Outstanding Contributions to Forensic Psychology from the American
Academy of Forensic Psychology.

     The U.Va. Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy
sponsors this annual P. Browning Hoffman Memorial Lecture in Law
and Psychiatry.  The institute is an interdisciplinary training and
research center affiliated with the Schools of Medicine and Law.

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                                                November 12, 1993

START DATE:  Immediate
KILL DATE:   Nov. 19, 1993

 
Karen Castle, Office Services Specialist, University News Office
P.O. Box 9018, Booker House, Charlottesville, VA  22906
(804) 924-7116, kac@virginia.edu

[Submitted by: Karen A. Castle  (kac@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu)
               Fri, 12 Nov 93 09:42:44 EST]