Partners in health, partners in crime : exploring the boundaries of criminology and sociology of health and illness / edited by Stefan Timmermans and Jonathan Gabe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Timmermans, Stefan, 1968-

Gabe, Jonathan.

Series:

Sociology of health and illness monograph series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social medicine.

Criminology.

Physical Description:

vii, 188 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2003.

Summary:

Criminology and medical sociology have developed largely independently of one another, despite a shared interest in questions of authority, expertise, social control, legitimacy, and credibility. This book crosses the divide, bringing together essays on the border between crime and health care. The region between the two fields is populated by, amongst others, forensic health care providers who interpret evidence and provide expert testimony in courts; law enforcement agents incarcerating populations with unmet mental health needs; and policy makers opting for punitive or treatment oriented policies. In considering the work of these professionals, the contributors to this volume map out the medical component of crime and the legal status of medicine.

Contents:

1 Introduction: connecting criminology and sociology of health and illness / Stefan Timmermans, Jonathan Gabe 1

2 Towards generous constraint: freedom and coercion in a French addiction treatment / Emilie Gomart 17

Care Providers as Experts and Victims of Crime

3 The cause of death vs. the gift of life: boundary maintenance and the politics of expertise in death investigation / Stefan Timmermans 49

4 Violence against doctors: a medical(ised) problem? The case of National Health Service general practitioners / Mary Ann Elston, Jonathan Gabe, David Denney, Raymond Lee, Maria O'Beirne 74

Invoking and Controlling 'Madness'

5 The emergence and implications of a mental health ethos in juvenile justice / Sarah Armstrong 97

6 Contesting the text: Canadian media depictions of the conflation of mental illness and criminality / Riley Olstead 118

7 Actor networks, policy networks and personality disorder / Nick Manning 140

8 Temporarily insane: pathologising cultural difference in American criminal courts / Sita Reddy 163.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1405105399

OCLC:

50401282