Crime, Punishment, and Mental Illness: Law and the Behavioral Sciences in Conflict by Patricia E. Erickson, Steven K. Erickson

Crime, Punishment, and Mental Illness: Law and the Behavioral Sciences in Conflict

Patricia E. Erickson, Steven K. Erickson

238 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative slow-paced
Powered by AI (Beta)
Loading...

Description

Hundreds of thousands of the inmates who populate the nation's jails and prison systems today are identified as mentally ill. Many experts point to the deinstitutionalization of mental hospitals in the 1960s, which led to more patients living on t...

Read more

Community Reviews

Loading...

Content Warnings

Loading...