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Author: Henry J. Steadman
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 206
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Author: Henry J. Steadman
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 206
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Published: 1974
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Terence Thornberry
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1979-04
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780226798189
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Criminally Insane is the largest scale in-depth follow-up study on mentally ill criminals yet to appear. This book challenges the assumption that inmates of maximum-security mental hospitals are extraordinarily violent and questions the necessity for maintaining maximum-security institutions which currently house some 15,000 persons in the United States. In 1971, 586 patients were released from a Pennsylvania maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane. They were not considered officially "cured," but a federal court held that their commitments had been unconstitutional. Through exhaustive examination of hospital and police records and interviews with hospital administrators and the subjects themselves, Thornberry and Jacoby assess the processes by which the patients had been retained in confinement, the impact of their release upon their communities, and their ability to adjust to the freedom of community life. The authors demonstrate that the patients did not display a significant level of violent behavior during confinement, nor did they pose a major threat to society after release. In fact, their social and psychological adjustment to community life is shown to have been comparable to that of non-criminal mental patients. Yet despite these findings the subjects had been retained in maximum-security confinement for an average of fourteen years because they were predicted to be violent and "dangerous" to society. The authors explain this inaccuracy by a process called "political prediction," in which clinicians avoid any potential risks to the community, the reputation of their hospitals, and their careers by consistently overpredicting dangerous behavior. The Criminally Insane will stimulate response from professionals in a wide variety of fields, including law, criminology, psychiatry, and sociology, and from anyone concerned with society's responsibility to the mentally ill offender.
Author: Philip Bean
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780415252652
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Janet Colaizzi
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2002-06-20
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 0817311858
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow physicians, and later psychiatrists, have diagnosed, explained, and restrained the dangerously insane. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Charles V Willie
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2016-01-28
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 1135346852
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollowing their book "Racism and Mental Health", the authors here re-examine the intersections of racism and mental health, adding sexism as another divisive issue that profoundly affects mental health. The book aims to offer fresh perspectives on contemporary controversial issues, including: interracial adoptions, teenage motherhood, gender bias in mental health diagnosis and therapy, prisons used as substitutes for hospitals, homeless families, and increasing violence in the home and on the streets.
Author: John Monahan
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-11-11
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 1489903518
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn its narrowest sense, "mentally disordered offender" refers to the approximately twenty thousand persons per year in the United States who are institutionalized as not guilty by reason of insanity, incompetent to stand trial, and mentally disordered sex offenders, as well as those prisoners transferred to mental hospitals. The real importance of mentally disordered offenders, however, may not lie in this figure. Rather, it may reside in the symbolic role that mentally disordered offenders play for the rest of the legal system. The 3,140 persons residing in state institutions on an average day in 1978 as not guilty by reason of insanity (see Chapter 4), for example, are surely worthy of concern in their own right. But they represent only 1% of the 307,276 persons residing in state and federal prisons in the same period (U. S. Dept. of Justice, 1981). From a purely numeric point of view, the insanity defense truly is "much ado about little" (Pasewark & Pasewark, 1982). The central importance of understanding these persons, however, is that they serve a symbolic function in justifying the imprisonment of the other 99%. The insanity defense, as Stone (1975) has noted, is "the exception that proves the rule. " By exculpating a relatively few people from being criminally responsible for their behavior, the law inculpates all other law violators as liable for social sanction.
Author: Saran Ghatak
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2010-12-13
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 073915110X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThreat Perceptions: The Policing of Dangers from Eugenics to the War on Terrorism examines the legal, scientific, and social construction of risk of crime in the United States. Ghatak focuses on the crime control policies that stretched from the beginning of the era of Eugenics and the rise of criminal psychiatry in the late 19th century to the contemporary era of "actuarial justice" and the Patriot Act.
Author: William C. Cockerham
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-12-29
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1000214966
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe eleventh edition of Sociology of Mental Disorder presents the major issues and research findings on the influence of race, social class, gender, and age on the incidence and prevalence of mental disorder. The text also examines the institutions that help those with mental disorders, mental health law, and public policy. Many important updates are new to this edition: -DSM-5 is thoroughly covered along with the controversy surrounding it. -Updated review of the relationship between mental health and gender. - A revised and more in-depth discussion of mental health and race. -Problems in public policy toward mental disorder are covered. -International trends in community care are reviewed. -Updates of research and citations throughout.
Author: John Monahan
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1996-05-15
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780226534060
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study reviews two decades of research on mental disorder and presents empirical and theoretical work which aims to determine more accurate predictions of violent behaviour.