Full Description
In the 1970's, sociologists found that mentally disordered patients were routinely committed to state hospitals. By 2005, state hospital facilities had been emptied and, consequently, the patients for whom they cared for had been shuffled elsewhere by the system. Some of these patients were placed in private hospitals. However, for many, there was no asylum-there was only jail or the street.
How does our legal and mental health system handle the mentally disordered? In Law and the Disordered, George C. Klein presents a revealing survey that explores the system of processing prisoners and patients from arrest to admissions to court. In an investigation spanning over thirty years, Klein examines and evaluates the intersection of law, mental health, and social control. He additionally explores the condition of state level Department's of Mental Health and mental health legislation in an attempt to offer readers a complete picture of the system at work.
Contents
Chapter 1 Preface: The Politics of Mental Health
Chapter 2 Part I: Theory
Part 3 Chapter 1: Congeneric Analysis: On the Emergence of an "Accidental" Methodology
Chapter 4 Part II. The Court
Part 5 Chapter 2: The Mental Health Court: The Beginning
Chapter 6 Part III. Studying Down
Part 7 Chapter 3: Admissions: "I Don't Reject Anybody...I'm Protecting Myself"
Part 8 Chapter 4: The Police: "How Do You Talk A Mentally Ill Person Out of Being Mentally Ill?
Chapter 9 Part IV. Studying Up: The Illinois Department of Mental Health and The Illinois State Legislature and the Governor's Office
Part 10 Chapter 5: The Illinois Department of Mental Health: The Mental Health System?
Part 11 Chapter 6: The Legislature and the Governor: Battling the Alligators
Chapter 12 Part V. Conclusions
Part 13 Chapter 7: Conclusions: The Passing of the Asylum; The End of the Exploration
Chapter 14 Appendix: The Courts: A Dead End
Chapter 15 Index
Chapter 16 About the Author
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