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Criminalization of Mental Illness: Crisis and Opportunity for the Justice System
Criminalization of Mental Illness Crisis and Opportunity for the Justice System
Author: Risdon Slate, W. Wesley Johnson
For a myriad of reasons the criminal justice system has become the de facto mental health system, with the three largest inpatient psychiatric institutions in America being jails--not hospitals. This book explores how and why this is the case. Sensationalized cases often drive criminal justice policies that can sometimes be impulsively enacted a...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781594602689
ISBN-10: 1594602689
Publication Date: 6/10/2008
Pages: 407
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Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
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