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Crime, punishment, and mental illness, law and the behavioral sciences in conflict, Patricia E. Erickson, Steven K. Erickson

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Crime, punishment, and mental illness, law and the behavioral sciences in conflict, Patricia E. Erickson, Steven K. Erickson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-209) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Crime, punishment, and mental illness

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

180195571

Responsibility statement

Patricia E. Erickson, Steven K. Erickson

Review

"In Crime, Punishment, and Mental Illness, Patricia E. Erickson and Steven K. Erickson explore how societal beliefs about free will and moral responsibility have shaped current policies and they identify the differences among the goals, ethos, and actions of the legal and health care systems. Drawing on high-profile cases, the authors provide a critical analysis of topics, including legal standards for competency, insanity versus mental illness, sex offenders, psychologically disturbed juveniles, the injury and death rates of mentally ill prisoners due to the inappropriate use of force, the high level of suicide, and the release of mentally ill individuals from jails and prisons who have received little or no treatment."--BOOK JACKET

Series statement

Critical issues in crime and society

Sub title

law and the behavioral sciences in conflict

Table Of Contents

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?

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