In recent years mentally disordered offenders have attracted considerable attention in the media and there has been heated public debate as to the best treatmen

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, P

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 deinstit

In recent years mentally disordered offenders have attracted considerable attention in the media and there has been heated public debate as to the best treatmen

First published in 1997, this volume’s purpose is to understand and clarify the nature of implicit theories currently held about the mentally disordered offen