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1 online resource (xv, 218 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Critical issues in crime and society
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Critical issues in crime and society.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-209) and index. |
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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 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. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Forensic psychiatry -- United States.
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Forensic psychiatry. |
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United States. |
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Insanity (Law) -- United States.
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Insanity (Law) |
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Criminal liability -- United States.
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Criminal liability. |
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People with mental disabilities and crime -- United States.
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People with mental disabilities and crime. |
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Mental Disorders -- psychology. |
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Mentally Ill Persons -- legislation & jurisprudence. |
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Crime -- psychology. |
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Insanity Defense. |
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Mental Competency. |
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Social Behavior. |
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United States. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Erickson, Steven K., 1971-
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| 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 book) |
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0813545080 (electronic book) |
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1281776394 |
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9781281776396 |
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9780813543376 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0813543371 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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081354338X |
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9780813543383 |
| Standard No. |
9786611776398 |
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