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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Bibliographic Details
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:
Strafrechtelijke aansprakelijkheid.
Toerekeningsvatbaarheid.
Daders.
Psychische stoornissen.
Kriminalität
Psychische Störung
Gerichtliche Psychiatrie
Rechtsprechung
Täter
Kriminalpsychologie
People with mental disabilities and crime.
Insanity (Law)
Forensic psychiatry.
Criminal liability.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Forensic Psychology.
86.41 criminal law: general.
44.91 psychiatry, psychopathology.
Personnes ayant une deficience intellectuelle et criminalite > États-Unis.
Crime > psychology
Insanity Defense
Mental Competency
Social Behavior
Mental Disorders > psychology
Mentally Ill Persons > legislation & jurisprudence
People with mental disabilities and crime > United States.
Criminal liability > United States.
Insanity (Law) > United States.
Forensic psychiatry > United States.
USA.
Verenigde Staten.
United States.
United States
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 incarceration. But this explanation does not justify why our society has chosen to treat these people with punitive measures. 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 polic.
Physical Description:1 online resource (238 pages).
ISBN:9780813543383

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