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

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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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Erickson, Patricia E., 1947-
Other Authors: Erickson, Steven K., 1971-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2008.
Series:Critical issues in crime and society.
Subjects:
Forensic psychiatry > United States.
Insanity (Law) > United States.
Criminal liability > United States.
People with mental disabilities and crime > United States.
Mentally Ill Persons > legislation & jurisprudence
Mental Disorders > psychology
Social Behavior
Mental Competency
Insanity Defense
Crime > psychology
Personnes ayant une déficience intellectuelle et criminalité > États-Unis.
44.91 psychiatry, psychopathology.
86.41 criminal law: general.
PSYCHOLOGY > Forensic Psychology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Criminal liability
Forensic psychiatry
Insanity (Law)
People with mental disabilities and crime
Kriminalpsychologie
Täter
Rechtsprechung
Gerichtliche Psychiatrie
Psychische Störung
Kriminalität
Psychische stoornissen.
Daders.
Toerekeningsvatbaarheid.
Strafrechtelijke aansprakelijkheid.
United States
USA
Verenigde Staten.
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