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Roth, Alisa, author.
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Mentally ill offenders -- United States.
Mentally ill offenders -- Civil rights -- United States.
Prisoners -- Mental health services -- United States.
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Insane : America's c...
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Insane : America's criminal treatment of mental illness / Alisa Roth.
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Roth, Alisa, author.
New York : Basic Books, 2018.
Subjects
Mentally ill offenders -- United States.
Mentally ill offenders -- Civil rights -- United States.
Prisoners -- Mental health services -- United States.
ISBN:
9780465094196 (hardcover)
0465094198
Description:
vi, 312 pages ; 25 cm
Edition:
First edition.
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.
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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.
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Hawaii State Library
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365.46 Ro
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