Deidre Greig

Neither Bad Nor Mad

The Competing Discourses of Psychiatry, Law and Politics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book looks at what happened when the government of Victoria, Australia enacted special legislation to detain one person with a severe antisocial personality disorder on the grounds of his presumed dangerousness, despite the fact that he did not fit within the ordinary criteria of mental illness or criminality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781843100065
• ISBN-10: 1843100061
• Artikelnr.: 23587597

Autorenporträt

Deidre N. Greig is a Fellow in the Department of Criminology, University of Melbourne, and has a background in social work with a PhD in History and Philosophy of Science. Her teaching and research have focused particularly on issues surrounding the interaction of psychiatry and law, and she is a committee member and former president of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law. Areas of special interest include the use of indefinite sentencing, the role of the psychiatric and legal professions, police interactions with the mentally ill, and the impact of private prisons.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. 1. Bad, Mad and Dangerous to Know. 2. 'A Macabre Dance to his
Well-Known Tune': The Pathway of Resistance. 3. A Flurry of Activity: The
Political Reaction to a Dangerous Person. 4. Bad or Mad? The Credibility of
Psychiatry. 5. A Malleable Boundary and the Bridging Manoeuvres. 6. The
Supreme Court: David versus Goliath. 7. The Social Audience and a Master
Puppeteer: Representations, Images and the Media. 8. The Prism of
Dangerousness. References. Index.