George C. Klein

Law and the Disordered

An Explanation in Mental Health, Law, and Politics

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 768g
• ISBN-13: 9780761847335
• ISBN-10: 0761847332
• Artikelnr.: 26867724

Autorenporträt

George C. Klein, Ph.D., is professor of sociology and anthropology at Oakton Community College in Des Plaines, Illinois. He has served as a part-time police officer, is a trained hostage negotiator, and has served as a consultant to a SWAT team. He is also a consultant to the Behavioral Science Unit at the FBI Academy. Dr. Klein has written articles on mental health, criminal justice, hostage negotiation, and terrorism. His first book was The Adventure: The Quest for My Romanian Babies (Hamilton Books, 2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface: The Politics of Mental Health Chapter 2 Part I: Theory
Part 3 Chapter 1: Congeneric Analysis: On the Emergence of an "Accidental"
Methodology Chapter 4 Part II. The Court Part 5 Chapter 2: The Mental
Health Court: The Beginning Chapter 6 Part III. Studying Down Part 7
Chapter 3: Admissions: "I Don't Reject Anybody...I'm Protecting Myself"
Part 8 Chapter 4: The Police: "How Do You Talk A Mentally Ill Person Out of
Being Mentally Ill? Chapter 9 Part IV. Studying Up: The Illinois Department
of Mental Health and The Illinois State Legislature and the Governor's
Office Part 10 Chapter 5: The Illinois Department of Mental Health: The
Mental Health System? Part 11 Chapter 6: The Legislature and the Governor:
Battling the Alligators Chapter 12 Part V. Conclusions Part 13 Chapter 7:
Conclusions: The Passing of the Asylum; The End of the Exploration Chapter
14 Appendix: The Courts: A Dead End Chapter 15 Index Chapter 16 About the
Author

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