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

Informationen zum Autor Erickson, Patricia Klappentext Hundreds of thousands of the inmates in the nation's prison systems today are identified as mentally ill. Patricia E. Erickson and Steven K. Erickson explore how societal beliefs about free will and moral responsibility have shaped current policies and identify the differences among the legal and health care systems. The authors provide a critical analysis of topics, via high-profile cases, including legal standards for competency, insanity versus mental illness, sex offenders, psychologically disturbed juveniles, the injury and death rates of mentally ill prisoners due to inappropriate use of force, the high level of suicide, and the release of mentally ill persons from prisons who have received little or no treatment. Zusammenfassung Explores how societal beliefs about free will and moral responsibility have shaped policies and identifies the differences among the goals! ethos! and actions of the legal and health care systems. This book provides a critical analysis of topics! including legal standards for competency! insanity versus mental illness! and sex offenders. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgements 1 The Social Construction of Mental Illness as a Criminal Justice Problem 2 Systems of Social Control: From Asylums to Prisons 3 Competency to Stand Trial and Competency to Be Executed 4 The Problems with the Insanity Defense: The COnflict between Law and Psychiatry 5 The "Mad" or "Bad" Debate Concerning Sex Offenders 6 Juvenile Offenders, Developmental Competency, and Mental Illness 7 Criminalizing Mental Illness: Does It Matter? References Index

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• Authors: Patricia Erickson, Patricia E. Erickson, Patricia E. Erickson Erickson, Patricia E./ Erickson Erickson, Patricia Erickson Erickson, Steven Erickson, Steven K. Erickson
• Assisted by: Raymond J. Michalowski (Editor)
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.07.2008
• EAN: 9780813543383
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-4338-3
• No. of pages: 238
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Critical Issues in Crime and S; Critical Issues in Crime and Society; Critical Issues in Crime and S
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology