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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| Language: | English |
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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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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 218 pages) |
| Format: | 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. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-209) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813545080 0813545080 9786611776398 6611776397 0813543371 9780813543376 |
| Language: | English. |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
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