Insane : America's criminal treatment of mental illness / Alisa Roth
By: Roth, Alisa [author.].
Publisher: New York : Basic Books, ©2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: First edition.Description: 312 p: 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780465094196; 0465094198.Subject(s): Mentally ill offenders -- United States | Mentally ill offenders -- Services for -- United States | Mentally ill offenders -- Civil rights -- United States | Prisoners -- Mental health services -- United StatesGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-304) and index
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
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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