Insane : America's criminal treatment of mental illness / Alisa Roth.
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Details
- Edition
- First edition.
- Description
- vi, 312 pages ; 25 cm
- Language
- Text in English.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-304) and index.
- Contents
- Part I. Ensnared: how we got here -- Jail is the only safe place -- The largest psych ward in America -- The asylum fallacy -- Part II. Locked up: what happens inside -- Jail as hospital -- Destined to fail -- Sanctioned torture -- Better off dead -- Guilty by reason of insanity -- Part III. Breaking free: toward a better way -- Inside out -- The cycle -- Shooting the victim -- The good-cop solution -- Disorder in the court.
- Summary
- An expose of the mental-health crisis in America's courts and prisons reveals that nearly half of the nation's inmates are actually afflicted by a psychiatric problem, examines how inmates are denied treatment, and suggests a more humane approach.
- Subject
- Mentally ill offenders -- United States.
- Mentally ill offenders -- Services for -- United States.
- Mentally ill offenders -- Civil rights -- United States.
- Prisoners -- Mental health services -- United States.
- LAW / Criminal Law.
- LAW / Mental Health.
- MEDICAL / Mental Health.
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy.
- PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology.
- Mentally ill offenders.
- Mentally ill offenders -- Services for.
- Prisoners -- Mental health services.
- United States.
- ISBN
- 9780465094196
- 0465094198