Crime, Punishment, and Mental Illness : : Law and the Behavioral Sciences in Conflict / / Steven Erickson, Patricia Erickson.

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 in...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2008]
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Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Critical Issues in Crime and Society
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Physical Description:1 online resource (238 p.)
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