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

Publication Info.	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2008]
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Description	1 online resource (xv, 218 pages).
Series	Critical issues in crime and society
	Critical issues in crime and society.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-209) and index.
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?
Summary	Hundreds of thousands of the inmates who populate the nation?s jails and prison systems today are identified as mentally illustrations 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.
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Subject	Forensic psychiatry -- United States.
	Insanity (Law) -- United States.
	Criminal liability -- United States.
	People with mental disabilities and crime -- United States.
	Mental Disorders -- psychology.
	Mentally Ill Persons -- legislation & jurisprudence.
	Crime -- psychology.
	Insanity Defense.
	Mental Competency.
	Social Behavior.
	United States.
	PSYCHOLOGY -- Forensic Psychology.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
	Criminal liability. (OCoLC)fst00883401
	Forensic psychiatry. (OCoLC)fst00932002
	Insanity (Law) (OCoLC)fst01715759
	People with mental disabilities and crime. (OCoLC)fst01057432
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Psychische stoornissen.
	Daders.
	Toerekeningsvatbaarheid.
	Strafrechtelijke aansprakelijkheid.
	United States.
	Kriminalpsychologie.
	Täter.
	Rechtsprechung.
	Gerichtliche Psychiatrie.
	Psychische Störung.
	Kriminalität.
	United States.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	Erickson, Steven K., 1971-
Other Form:	Print version: Erickson, Patricia E., 1947- Crime, punishment, and mental illness. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2008 9780813543376 (DLC) 2007044904 (OCoLC)180195571
ISBN	9780813545080 (electronic bk.)
	0813545080 (electronic bk.)
Standard No.	9786611776398

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