Injustice and Prophecy in the Age of Mass Incarceration : : The Politics of Sanity / / Andrew Skotnicki.
Why do the UK and US disproportionately incarcerate the mentally ill, frequently poor people of color? Via multiple re-framings of the question—theological, socioeconomic, and psychological— Andrew Skotnicki diagnoses a persecution of the prophetic at the heart of the contemporary criminal justice s...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2022 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bristol : : Bristol University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (182 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Overview of the Problem of Mental Illness and Incarceration
- How We Think about the Mentally Ill
- Why Do We Punish the Mentally Ill?
- A Profile of the “Mad” Prophet
- Prophetic Types and the Penal Sanctuary
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index