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Punishing the Mentally Ill A Critical Analysis of Law and Psychiatry 1st Edition by Bruce A Arrigo, George B Palermo, Michael L Perlin ISBN 0791488438 9780791488430

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Author(s): Bruce A. Arrigo; George B. Palermo; Michael L. Perlin
ISBN(s): 9780791488430, 0791488438
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 7.55 MB
Year: 2002
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0791488438

ISBN 13: 9780791488430 

Author: Bruce A. Arrigo; George B. Palermo; Michael L. Perlin

A provocative exploration of a wide range of controversies in mental health law, this book argues that the criminal justice system punishes citizens for being mentally ill.

A powerful, sophisticated, and original critique on how the disciplines of law and psychiatry behave and on how the mental health and justice systems operate, Punishing the Mentally Ill reveals where, how, and why the identity and humanity of persons with psychiatric disorders are consciously and unconsciously denied. Author Bruce A. Arrigo contends that despite periodic and well-intentioned efforts at reform, the current law-psychiatry system functions to punish the mentally ill for being different. The book synthesizes a wide range of mainstream and critical literature in sociology, law, philosophy, history, psychology, and psychoanalysis to establish a new theory of punishment at the law-psychiatry divide. To situate the analysis, enduring psycholegal issues are explored including the meaning of mental illness, definitions and predictions of dangerousness, the ethics of advocacy, the right to community-based treatment, the logic of forensic courtroom verdicts, transcarceration, and the execution of mentally disordered offenders among others. Punishing the Mentally Ill shows that current mental disability law research, programming, and policy are seriously flawed and that wholesale reform is necessary if the goals of citizen justice, social well-being, and humanism are to be realized.

Table of contents:

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I Civil Confinement
Civil Commitment and Paternalism: Legal and Psychiatric Dynamics
Medicolegal Advocacy for the Mentally Ill: A Question of Ethics
The Right to Community-Based Treatment
Policing and Disciplining Mental Illness: Social Control and Chaos in Confinement
PART II Criminal Confinement
Transcarceration and Mentally Ill “Offenders”: Prisoners of Confinement
Ideology in the Psychiatric Courtroom: Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity and Guilty but Mentally Ill
Executing the Mentally Ill: On Semiotics and Deconstruction
Law, Psychiatry, and Punishment: Toward a Critical Theory
Notes
References
Index
Back Matter

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