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Crime, punishment, and mental illness : law and the behavioral sciences in conflict
- Title
- Crime, punishment, and mental illness : law and the behavioral sciences in conflict / Patricia E. Erickson, Steven K. Erickson.
- Author
- Erickson, Patricia E., 1947-
- Publication
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2008.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Erickson, Steven K., 1971-
- Description
- xv, 218 p.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Critical issues in crime and society
- Subject
- Forensic psychiatry > United States
- Insanity (Law) > United States
- Criminal liability > United States
- People with mental disabilities and crime > United States
- Mental Disorders > psychology > United States
- Mentally Ill Persons > legislation & jurisprudence > United States
- Crime > psychology > United States
- Insanity Defense > United States
- Mental Competency > United States
- Social Behavior > United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-209) and index.
- 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?
- Call Number
- JFD 08-3313
- ISBN
- 9780813543376 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0813543371 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780813543383 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 081354338X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007044904
- OCLC
- 180195571
- Author
- Erickson, Patricia E., 1947-
- Title
- Crime, punishment, and mental illness : law and the behavioral sciences in conflict / Patricia E. Erickson, Steven K. Erickson.
- Imprint
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2008.
- Series
- Critical issues in crime and society
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-209) and index.
- Added Author
- Erickson, Steven K., 1971-
- Research Call Number
- JFD 08-3313