George C. Klein

Broschiertes Buch

Law and the Disordered

An Explanation in Mental Health, Law, and Politics

Beschreibung

How does our legal and mental health system handle the mentally disordered? In this book, George C. Klein presents a revealing survey that explores the system of processing prisoners and patients from arrest to admissions to court. In an investigation spanning over 30-years, Klein examines and evaluates the intersection of law, mental health, and social control.

Autor

George C. Klein

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 768g
• ISBN-13: 9780761847335
• ISBN-10: 0761847332
• Artikelnr.: 26867724

Rezensionen

As a result of the massive amount of information collected and discussed, Klein's book provides a sustained - and very thorough - examination of an important, under-studied, and growing problem in the United States... Klein's book provides an invaluable study of the mental health and criminal justice systems and the treatment of mentally ill individuals in Chicago, and has important implications for social policy across the United States. The review of deinstitutionalization, the literature on criminalization of mental illness, and the overview of historical issues in involuntary civil commitment are all impressive and must-reads for those wanting to learn about the historical development of mental health treatment in the mental health and criminal justice systems. I would recommend this book for a variety of advanced undergraduate or graduate-level courses. Contemporary Sociology