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Autore |
Erickson Patricia E. <1947-> |
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Titolo |
Crime, punishment, and mental illness [[electronic resource] ] : law and the behavioral sciences in conflict / / Patricia E. Erickson, Steven K. Erickson |
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New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2008 |
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1-281-77639-4 |
9786611776398 |
0-8135-4508-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (238 p.) |
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Collana |
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Critical issues in crime and society |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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EricksonSteven K. <1971-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Forensic psychiatry - United States |
Insanity (Law) - United States |
Criminal liability - United States |
People with mental disabilities and crime - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. The Social Construction of Mental Illness as a Criminal Justice Problem -- Chapter 2. Systems of Social Control: From Asylums to Prisons -- Chapter 3. Competency to Stand Trial and Competency to Be Executed -- Chapter 4. The Problems with the Insanity Defense: The Conflict between Law and Psychiatry -- Chapter 5. The "Mad" or "Bad" Debate Concerning Sex Offenders -- Chapter 6. Juvenile Offenders, Developmental Competency, and Mental Illness -- Chapter 7. Criminalizing Mental Illness: Does It Matter? -- References -- Index -- About the Authors |
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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 1960's, which led to more patients living on their own, as the reason for this high rate of incarceration. But this explanation does not justify why our society has chosen to treat these people with punitive measures. In |
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Crime, Punishment, and Mental Illness, Patricia E. Erickson and Steven K. Erickson explore how societal beliefs about free will and moral responsibility have shaped current policies and they identify the differences among the goals, ethos, and actions of the legal and health care systems. Drawing on high-profile cases, the authors provide a critical analysis of topics, including legal standards for competency, insanity versus mental illness, sex offenders, psychologically disturbed juveniles, the injury and death rates of mentally ill prisoners due to the inappropriate use of force, the high level of suicide, and the release of mentally ill individuals from jails and prisons who have received little or no treatment. |
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UNINA9910452359203321 |
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Autore |
Gay Ruth |
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Safe among the Germans [[electronic resource] ] : liberated Jews after World War II / / Ruth Gay |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2002 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-73132-3 |
9786611731328 |
0-300-13312-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (1 online resource (xiv, 347 p.) ) : ill., facsims., ports |
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Holocaust survivors - Germany |
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Influence |
Jews - Germany - History - 1945-1990 |
Jews, East European - Germany - History - 20th century |
Jewish refugees - Germany - History - 20th century |
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Germany Ethnic relations |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographic references (p. 309-330) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- ONE. Where They Came From -- TWO. Return to the World -- THREE. -- FOUR. Jews Again in |
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Berlin -- FIVE. -- SIX. New Generations in Germany -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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This book tells the little-known story of why a quarter-million Jews, survivors of death camps and forced labor, sought refuge in Germany after World War II. Those who had ventured to return to Poland after liberation soon found that their homeland had become a new killing ground, where some 1,500 Jews were murdered in pogroms between 1945 and 1947. Facing death at home, and with Palestine and the rest of the world largely closed to them, they looked for a place to be safe and found it in the shelter of the Allied Occupation Forces in Germany. By 1950 a little community of 20,000 Jews remained in Germany: 8,000 native German Jews and 12,000 from Eastern Europe. Ruth Gay examines their contrasting lives in the two postwar Germanies. After the fall of Communism, the Jewish community was suddenly overwhelmed by tens of thousands of former Soviet Jews. Now there are some 100,000 Jews in Germany. The old, somewhat nostalgic life of the first postwar decades is being swept aside by radical forces from the Lubavitcher at one end to Reform and feminism at the other. What started in 1945 as a "remnant" community has become a dynamic new center of Jewish life. |
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