Heather Cucolo

New York Law School

Adjunct Professor and Acting Director of the Online Mental Disability Law Program

185 West Broadway

New York, NY 10013

United States

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Preventing Sex-Offender Recidivism Through Therapeutic Jurisprudence Approaches and Specialized Community Integration

Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review, Fall 2012, NYLS Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12/13 #33
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 26 Jul 2012
Heather Cucolo and Michael L. Perlin
New York Law School and New York Law School
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Sex offender law, therapeutic jurisprudence, institutionalization, recidivism, criminal procedure, media impact, judicial decisionmaking

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'They're Planting Stories in the Press': The Impact of Media Distortions on Sex Offender Law and Policy

NYLS Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12/13 #55, NYLS Clinical Research Institute Paper No. # 33/ 2012
Number of pages: 112 Posted: 21 Feb 2013
Heather Cucolo and Michael L. Perlin
New York Law School and New York Law School
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Sex offender law, therapeutic jurisprudence, institutionalization, recidivism, criminal procedure, media impact, judicial decision-making

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'My Bewildering Brain Toils in Vain': Traumatic Brain Injury, the Criminal Trial Process, and the Case of Lisa Montgomery

NYLS Legal Studies Research Paper No. 3777551
Number of pages: 86 Posted: 14 Feb 2021
Alison Lynch, Michael L. Perlin and Heather Cucolo
Mental Disability Law & Policy Associates, New York Law School and New York Law School
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'The Strings in the Books Ain't Pulled and Persuaded': How the Use of Improper Statistics and Unverified Data Corrupts the Judicial Process in Sex Offender Cases

NYLS Legal Studies Research Paper No. 3223877
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 02 Aug 2018
Heather Cucolo and Michael L. Perlin
New York Law School and New York Law School
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sex offender law, criminal law and procedure, therapeutic jurisprudence, judicial decisionmaking, disability law, shame, humiliation

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'Take the Motherless Children off the Street': Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and the Criminal Justice System

NYLS Legal Studies Research Paper No. 4209258
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 12 Sep 2022
Michael L. Perlin and Heather Cucolo
New York Law School and New York Law School
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Fetal alcohol syndrome, effectiveness of counsel, competency to stand trial, expert witnesses, insanity defense, sentencing, death penalty, therapeutic jurisprudence, criminal procedure

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'Something’s Happening Here/But You Don’t Know What It Is': How Jurors (Mis)Construe Autism in the Criminal Trial Process

NYLS Legal Studies Research Paper No. 3664705
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 03 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 25 Sep 2020
Michael L. Perlin and Heather Cucolo
New York Law School and New York Law School
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autism, jury selection, voir dire, jury charge, criminal trial, expert witnesses, therapeutic jurisprudence

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'See This Empty Cage Now Corrode': The International Human Rights and Comparative Law Implications of Sexually Violent Predator Laws

New Criminal Law Review (2020), Forthcoming, NYLS Legal Studies Research Paper No. 3586430
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 12 May 2020 Last Revised: 25 Sep 2020
Michael L. Perlin and Heather Cucolo
New York Law School and New York Law School
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sex offender laws, SVPA, international human rights law, comparative law, therapeutic jurisprudence

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‘Tolling for the Aching Ones Whose Wounds Cannot Be Nursed’: The Marginalization of Racial Minorities and Women in Institutional Mental Disability Law

Forthcoming Symposium Issue of the Journal of Gender, Race, and Justice
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 19 Jan 2017
Michael L. Perlin and Heather Cucolo
New York Law School and New York Law School
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Race, Gender, Therapeutic Jurisprudence, Involuntary Hospitalization, Civil Commitment, Mental Disability Law, Sanism, Cultural Competency, Right to Refuse Medication, Institutionalization

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'Far from the Turbulent Space': Considering the Adequacy of Counsel in the Representation of Individuals Accused of Being Sexually Violent Predators

Number of pages: 89 Posted: 26 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 28 Jan 2014
Heather Cucolo and Michael L. Perlin
New York Law School and New York Law School
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“I Saw Guns and Sharp Swords in the Hands of Young Children”: Why Mental Health Courts for Juveniles with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum/Disorder Are Needed

NYLS Legal Studies Research Paper No. 4515470
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 22 Jul 2023
Michael L. Perlin, Heather Cucolo and Deborah Dorfman
New York Law School, New York Law School and Disability Rights Connecticut
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autism; fetal alcohol syyndrome; problem solving-courts; therapeutic jurisprudence; criminal procedure; mental disability law; juvenile mental health courts; juvenile justice

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Promoting Dignity and Preventing Shame and Humiliation by Improving the Quality and Education of Attorneys in Sexually Violent Predator (SVP) Civil Commitment Cases

NYLS Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2910541
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 03 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2018
Heather Cucolo and Michael L. Perlin
New York Law School and New York Law School
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Sex offender law; right to counsel; therapeutic jurisprudence; expert testimony; sexually violent predator acts; SVPA laws; institutionalization; actuarial tests; criminal procedure; jury attitudes; right to experts; judicial decisionmaking; shame and humiliation; dignity

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A TJ Approach to Mental Disability Rights Research: On Sexual Autonomy and Sexual Offending

THE METHODOLOGY AND PRACTICE OF THERAPEUTIC JURISPRUDENCE (Nigel Stobbs, Lorana Bartels & Michel Vols, eds. 2019) (Carolina Academic Press) , NYLS Legal Studies Research Paper No. 3771958
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 11 Feb 2021
Michael L. Perlin, Heather Cucolo and Alison Lynch
New York Law School, New York Law School and Mental Disability Law & Policy Associates
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therapeutic jurisprudence; sexuality; sex offender law; mental disability law

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Online Mental Disability Law Education, a Disability Rights Tribunal, and the Creation of an Asian Disability Law Database: Their Impact on Research, Training and Teaching of Law, Criminology Criminal Justice in Asia

Asian Journal of Legal Education, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2013, NYLS Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12/13 #35
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 06 Dec 2012
Michael L. Perlin, Heather Cucolo and Yoshikazu Ikehara
New York Law School, New York Law School and Tokyo Advocacy Law Office
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online education, mental disability law, criminal law, tribunals, criminal procedure, criminal justice, criminology, international human rights law