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UNINA9910453594303321 |
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Erickson Patricia E. <1947-> |
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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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Critical issues in crime and society |
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EricksonSteven K. <1971-> |
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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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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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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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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UNINA9910786708803321 |
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Autore |
Menjívar Cecilia |
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Enduring violence : Ladina women's lives in Guatemala / / Cecilia Menjívar |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 |
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1-283-29180-0 |
9786613291806 |
0-520-94841-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (304 pages) |
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Women - Guatemala - Social conditions |
Women - Violence against - Guatemala |
Ladino (Latin American people) - Violence against - Guatemala |
Violence - Guatemala |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-272) and index. |
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Front matter -- U.N. Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Approaching Violence in Eastern Guatemala -- Chapter 2. A Framework for Examining Violence -- Chapter 3. Corporeal Dimensions of Gender Violence: Woman's Self and Body -- Chapter 4. Marital Unions and the |
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Normalization of Suffering -- Chapter 5. Children, Motherhood, and the Routinization of Pain and Sacrifice -- Chapter 6. Women's Work Normalizing and Sustaining Gender Inequality -- Chapter 7. Church, Religion, and Enduring Everyday Violence -- Chapter 8. Enduring Violence -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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Drawing on revealing, in-depth interviews, Cecilia Menjívar investigates the role that violence plays in the lives of Ladina women in eastern Guatemala, a little-visited and little-studied region. While much has been written on the subject of political violence in Guatemala, Menjívar turns to a different form of suffering-the violence embedded in institutions and in everyday life so familiar and routine that it is often not recognized as such. Rather than painting Guatemala (or even Latin America) as having a cultural propensity for normalizing and accepting violence, Menjívar aims to develop an approach to examining structures of violence-profound inequality, exploitation and poverty, and gender ideologies that position women in vulnerable situations- grounded in women's experiences. In this way, her study provides a glimpse into the root causes of the increasing wave of feminicide in Guatemala, as well as in other Latin American countries, and offers observations relevant for understanding violence against women around the world today. |
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