TY  - GEN
T1  - Neither bad nor mad : the competing discourses of psychiatry, law, and politics
T2  - Forensic focus ;
A1  - Greig, Deidre N.
LA  - English
PP  - London ; Philadelphia
PB  - Jessica Kingsley Pub.
YR  - 2002
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm54829450
AB  - This book looks at what happened when the government of Victoria, Australia, enacted special legislation to detain one person with a severe antisocial personality disorder on the grounds of his presumed dangerousness, despite the fact that he did not fit within the ordinary criteria of mental illness or criminality. In doing so, it interfered with the law's protection of civil rights and also with professional distinctions between a certifiable mental illness and the broader concept of mental disorder. The ensuing legal processes highlighted the ambiguous, contingent and negotiable nature of t.
OP  - 288
CN  - KUG52.3 .G74 2002eb
SN  - 1417501596
SN  - 9781417501595
SN  - 1846423309
SN  - 9781846423307
SN  - 9781843100065
SN  - 1843100061
SN  - 1283907186
SN  - 9781283907187
KW  - David, Garry, : 1972-1993.
KW  - David, Garry, : 1972-1993
KW  - Insanity (Law) : Australia : Victoria.
KW  - Dangerously mentally ill : Australia : Victoria.
KW  - Forensic psychiatry : Australia : Victoria.
KW  - Forensic Psychiatry : legislation & jurisprudence
KW  - Persons with Psychiatric Disorders : legislation & jurisprudence.
KW  - Victoria
KW  - Aliénation mentale : Australie : Victoria.
KW  - Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale dangereuses : Australie : Victoria.
KW  - Psychiatrie médico-légale : Australie : Victoria.
KW  - Pathology.
KW  - MEDICAL : Forensic Medicine.
KW  - Dangerously mentally ill
KW  - Forensic psychiatry
KW  - Insanity (Law)
KW  - Case Reports
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Case studies.
KW  - Études de cas.
ER  -