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Crime, punishment, and mental illness : law and the behavioral sciences in conflict /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Erickson, Patricia E., 1947-
Other Authors: Erickson, Steven K., 1971-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2008]
Subjects:
Social Behavior > United States.
Mental Competency > United States.
Insanity Defense > United States.
Crime > psychology > United States.
Mentally Ill Persons > legislation & jurisprudence > United States.
Mental Disorders > psychology > United States.
People with mental disabilities and crime > United States.
Criminal liability > United States.
Insanity (Law) > United States.
Forensic psychiatry > United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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?