Patricia Erickson, Steven Erickson

Crime, Punishment, and Mental Illness

Law and the Behavioral Sciences in Conflict

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9780813543383
• ISBN-10: 081354338X
• Artikelnr.: 23440153

Autorenporträt

PATRICIA ERICKSON is a professor at Canisius College, where she serves as chair of the department of sociology, anthropology, and criminal justice. Steven Erickson is a forensic psychologist, practicing attorney, and a Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Centers (MIRECC) fellow at Yale University.

Inhaltsangabe

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