Crime, Punishment, and Mental Illness : Law and the Behavioral Sciences in Conflict /

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Bibliographic Details
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:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social Behavior > United States.
Mental Competency > United States.
Insanity Defense > United States.
Crime > psychology > United States.
Mentally Ill Persons > legislation & jurisprudence > United States.
Mental Disorders > psychology > United States.
People with mental disabilities and crime > United States.
Criminal liability > United States.
Insanity (Law) > United States.
Forensic psychiatry > United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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