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A powerful, sophisticated, and original critique on how the disciplines of law and psychiatry behave and on how the mental health and justice systems operate, Punishing the Mentally Ill reveals where, how, and why the identity and humanity of persons with psychiatric disorders are consciously and unconsciously denied. Author Bruce A. Arrigo contends that despite periodic and well-intentioned efforts at reform, the current law-psychiatry system functions to punish the mentally ill for being different. The book synthesizes a wide range of mainstream and critical literature in sociology, law, philosophy, history, psychology, and psychoanalysis to establish a new theory of punishment at the law-psychiatry divide.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Social services & welfare, criminology Crime & criminology

• Full title: Punishing the Mentally Ill
• Subtitle: A Critical Analysis of Law and Psychiatry
• Author: Bruce A. Arrigo
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 287
• EAN: 9780791454046
• ID: 04701564
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Weight: 399 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. July 2002

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