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Punishing the Mentally Ill : A Critical Analysis of Law and Psychiatry.
Title:
Punishing the Mentally Ill : A Critical Analysis of Law and Psychiatry.
Author:
Arrigo, Bruce A.
ISBN:
9780791488430
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (290 pages)
Series:
SUNY Series in New Directions in Crime and Justice Studies
Contents:
Punishing theMentally Ill: A Critical Analysis of Law and Psychiatry -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Civil Commitment and Paternalism: Legal and Psychiatric Dynamics -- 2. Medicolegal Advocacy for the Mentally Ill: A Question of Ethics -- 3. The Right to Community-Based Treatment -- 4. Policing and Disciplining Mental IllnessL Social Control and Chaos in Confinement -- 5. Transcarceration and Mentally Ill "Offenders": Prisoners of Confinement -- 6. Ideology in the Psychiatric Courtroom: Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity and Guilty but Mentally Ill -- 7. Executing the Mentally Ill: On Semiotics and Deconstruction -- 8. Law, Psychiatry, and Punishment: Toward a Critical Theory -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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