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Law and the Disordered
An Explanation in Mental Health, Law, and Politics
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2009
Summary
In the 1970's, sociologists found that mentally disordered patients were routinely committed to state hospitals. By 2005, state hospital facilities had been emptied and, consequently, the patients for whom they cared for had been shuffled elsewhere by the system. Some of these patients were placed in private hospitals. However, for many, there was no asylum-there was only jail or the street. How does our legal and mental health system handle the mentally disordered? In Law and the Disordered, George C. Klein presents a revealing survey that explores the system of processing prisoners and patients from arrest to admissions to court. In an investigation spanning over thirty years, Klein examines and evaluates the intersection of law, mental health, and social control. He additionally explores the condition of state level Department's of Mental Health and mental health legislation in an attempt to offer readers a complete picture of the system at work.
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Edition
1/2009
Copyright Year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7618-4733-5
ISBN-Online
978-0-7618-4734-2
Publisher
Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
401
Product Type
Monograph
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Table of Contents No access
Preface : The Politics of Mental Health No access
Chapter 1: Congeneric Analysis: On the Emergence of an "Accidental" Methodology No access
Chapter 2: The Mental Health Court: The Beginning No access
Chapter 3: Admissions: "I Don't Reject Anybody . . . I'm Protecting Myself" No access
Chapter 4: The Police: "How Do You Talk a Mentally I11 Person Out of Being Mentally Ill? " No access
Chapter 5: The Illinois Department of Mental Health: The Mental Health System? No access
Chapter 6: The Legislature and the Governor: Battling the Alligators No access
Chapter 7: Conclusions No access
Appendix: The Courts: A Dead End No access Pages 383 - 390
Index No access Pages 391 - 400
About the Author No access Pages 401 - 401
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