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Punishing the mentally ill : a critical analysis of law and psychiatry / Bruce A. Arrigo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arrigo, Bruce A.
- Series:
- SUNY Series in New Directions in Crime and Justice Studies
- SUNY series in new directions in crime and justice studies
- SUNY series in New Directions in Crime and Justice Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Insanity (Law)--United States.
- Insanity (Law).
- Mentally ill--Commitment and detention--United States.
- Mentally ill.
- Punishment--United States.
- Punishment.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (290 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A powerful, sophisticated, and original critique on how the disciplines of law and psychiatry behave and on how the mental health and justice systems operate, Punishing the Mentally Ill reveals where, how, and why the identity and humanity of persons with psychiatric disorders are consciously and unconsciously denied. Author Bruce A. Arrigo contends that despite periodic and well-intentioned efforts at reform, the current law-psychiatry system functions to punish the mentally ill for being different. The book synthesizes a wide range of mainstream and critical literature in sociology, law, philosophy, history, psychology, and psychoanalysis to establish a new theory of punishment at the law-psychiatry divide. To situate the analysis, enduring psycholegal issues are explored including the meaning of mental illness, definitions and predictions of dangerousness, the ethics of advocacy, the right to community-based treatment, the logic of forensic courtroom verdicts, transcarceration, and the execution of mentally disordered offenders among others. Punishing the Mentally Ill shows that current mental disability law research, programming, and policy are seriously flawed and that wholesale reform is necessary if the goals of citizen justice, social well-being, and humanism are to be realized.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Civil Confinement
- Civil Commitment and Paternalism
- Medicolegal Advocacy for the Mentally Ill
- The Right to Community-Based Treatment
- Policing and Disciplining Mental Illness
- Criminal Confinement
- Transcarceration and Mentally Ill “Offenders”
- Ideology in the Psychiatric Courtroom
- Executing the Mentally Ill
- Law, Psychiatry, and Punishment
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-251) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7914-8843-8
- OCLC:
- 811404010
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