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The contours of psychiatric justice : a postmodern critque of mental illness, criminal insanity, and the law

Title
The contours of psychiatric justice : a postmodern critque of mental illness, criminal insanity, and the law / Bruce A. Arrigo.
Author
Arrigo, Bruce A.
Publication
New York : Garland Pub., 1996.

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Description
xv, 274 pages; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Current issues in criminal justice ; v. 16. Garland reference library of social science ; v. 1018
Uniform Title
  • Garland reference library of social science ; v. 1018.
  • Garland reference library of the humanities. Current issues in criminal justice ; v. 16.
Subject
  • Insanity (Law)
  • Mentally ill > Commitment and detention
  • Mentally ill offenders > Legal status, laws, etc
  • Forensic psychiatry
  • Mental illness
  • Forensic Psychiatry
  • Insanity Defense
  • Mental Disorders
  • Commitment of Mentally Ill
  • mental disorders
  • Mental illness
  • Forensic psychiatry
  • Mentally ill > Commitment and detention
Genre/Form
  • Legislation
  • Lois et codes.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-262) and index.
Contents
Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Mentally Ill, the Criminally Insane, and Confinement Laws: A Social Context -- Ch. 3. When the Law Speaks for Psychiatric Citizens -- Ch. 4. Confinement Laws, Practices, and the Question of Harm -- Ch. 5. Institutionalization and Paternalism -- Ch. 6. Rethinking Confinement Law: Toward an Emancipatory Linguistic Praxis -- Ch. 7. Beyond Psychiatric Justice: The Future of Confinement Law, Policy, and Practice.
ISBN
  • 0815319797
  • 9780815319795
LCCN
95043513
OCLC
  • ocm33334947
  • 33334947
  • SCSB-2123062
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library