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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
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