Crime, punishment, and mental illness : law and the behavioral sciences in conflict /
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 incarce...
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
2008
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| Series: | Critical issues in crime and society.
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