Punishing the Mentally Ill

Punishing the Mentally IllA provocative exploration of a wide range of controversies in mental health law, this book argues that the criminal justice system punishes citizens for being mentally ill. 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, Punishing the Mentally Ill reveals where, how, and why the identity and humanity of persons with psychiatric disorders are

creating a coherent collection of techniques and results from experimental and theoretical perspectives

Develops a novel characterization of the pornographic as a cultural concept

Truth was the last of Zola’s novels to be published when it appeared the year after his death

Unworkable discusses the ongoing implosion of our globalized world from three distinct angles: the capitalist elimination of labor through technological automation

truck drivers and slaughter facilities need to do in order to mitigate these factors

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and a reinterpretation of the theoretical viewpoints of psychologists Erik Erikson

the challenges and promises of trauma-informed practice

Matthew Schultz maps rhetorical hauntings across a wide range of postcolonial Irish novels

Taking up the dialogue of Nancy and Maurice Blanchot on Bataille's ideas about community

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