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The contours of psychiatric justice : a postmodern critque of mental illness, criminal insanity, and the law

Title
  1. The contours of psychiatric justice : a postmodern critque of mental illness, criminal insanity, and the law / Bruce A. Arrigo.
Published by
  1. New York : Garland Pub., 1996.
Author
  1. Arrigo, Bruce A.

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Description
  1. xv, 274 pages; 23 cm.
Series statement
  1. Current issues in criminal justice ; v. 16. Garland reference library of social science ; v. 1018
Uniform title
  1. Garland reference library of social science ; v. 1018.
  2. Garland reference library of the humanities. Current issues in criminal justice ; v. 16.
Subject
  1. Insanity (Law)
  2. Mentally ill > Commitment and detention
  3. Mentally ill offenders > Legal status, laws, etc
  4. Forensic psychiatry
  5. Mental illness
  6. Forensic Psychiatry
  7. Insanity Defense
  8. Mental Disorders
  9. Commitment of Mentally Ill
  10. mental disorders
  11. Mental illness
  12. Forensic psychiatry
  13. Mentally ill > Commitment and detention
Genre/Form
  1. Legislation
  2. Lois et codes.
Contents
  1. Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Mentally Ill, the Criminally Insane, and Confinement Laws: A Social Context -- Ch. 3. When the Law Speaks for Psychiatric Citizens -- Ch. 4. Confinement Laws, Practices, and the Question of Harm -- Ch. 5. Institutionalization and Paternalism -- Ch. 6. Rethinking Confinement Law: Toward an Emancipatory Linguistic Praxis -- Ch. 7. Beyond Psychiatric Justice: The Future of Confinement Law, Policy, and Practice.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-262) and index.