Crime, punishment, and mental illness : law and the behavioral sciences in conflict /

Hundreds of thousands of the inmates who populate the nation?s jails and prison systems today are identified as mentally ill. Many experts point to the deinstitutionalization of mental hospitals in the 1960s, which led to more patients living on their own, as the reason for this high rate of incarce...

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Xehetasun bibliografikoak
Egile nagusia: Erickson, Patricia E., 1947-
Beste egile batzuk: Erickson, Steven K., 1971-
Formatua: Licensed eBooks
Hizkuntza:ingelesa
Argitaratua: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2008.
Saila:Critical issues in crime and society.
Sarrera elektronikoa:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hj7hb
Aurkibidea:
  • The social construction of mental illness as a criminal justice problem
  • Systems of social control: from asylums to prisons
  • Competency to stand trial and competency to be executed
  • The problems with the insanity defense: the conflict between law and psychiatry
  • The "mad" or "bad" debate concerning sex offenders
  • Juvenile offenders, developmental competency, and mental illness
  • Criminalizing mental illness: does it matter?