Arrigo Punishing the Mentally Ill

A Critical Analysis of Law and Psychiatry
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8843-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 287 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in New Directions in Crime and Justice Studies

A provocative exploration of a wide range of controversies in mental health law, this book argues that the criminal justice system punishes citizens for being mentally ill.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Arrigo, Bruce A.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Perlin, Michael L.

Palermo, George B.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I. Civil Confinement
1. Civil Commitment and Paternalism: Legal and Psychiatric Dynamics
2. Medicolegal Advocacy for the Mentally Ill: A Question of Ethics
3. The Right to Community-Based Treatment
4. Policing and Disciplining Mental Illness: Social Control and Chaos in Confinement
PART II. Criminal Confinement
5. Transcarceration and Mentally Ill "Offenders": Prisoners of Confinement
6. Ideology in the Psychiatric Courtroom: Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity and Guilty but Mentally Ill
7. Executing the Mentally Ill: On Semiotics and Deconstruction 8. Law, Psychiatry, and Punishment: Toward a Critical Theory
Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bruce A. Arrigo is Professor and Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice and Adjunct Professor of Public Policy and Psychology at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. He is the author of several books, including Social Justice/Criminal Justice: The Maturation of Critical Theory in Law, Crime, and Deviance and, with Christopher R. Williams, Law, Psychology, and Justice: Chaos Theory and the New (Dis)order, also published by SUNY Press.