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| Other authors / contributors: | Erickson, Steven K., 1971-
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| ISBN: | 9780813545080
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-209) and index.
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.
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| Summary: | 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 1960s, 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 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 polic.
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| Other form: | Print version: Erickson, Patricia E., 1947- Crime, punishment, and mental illness. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2008 9780813543376
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| Standard no.: | 9786611776398
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