Insane : America's criminal treatment of mental illness / Alisa Roth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roth, Alisa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mentally ill offenders--United States.

Mentally ill offenders.

Prisoners--Mental health services.

Prisoners--Mental health services--U.S. states.

Civil rights.

Mentally ill offenders--Services for.

United States.

Mentally ill offenders--Services for--United States.

Mentally ill offenders--Civil rights--United States.

Prisoners--Mental health services--United States.

Prisoners.

LAW / Mental Health.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology.

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy.

Local Subjects:

LAW / Mental Health.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology.

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy.

Physical Description:

vi, 312 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, 2018.

Language Note:

Text in English.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-304) and index.

ISBN:

9780465094196

0465094198

OCLC:

1029201906