Mental Health and Criminal Justice (SAGE Criminal Justice System Annuals)

By Linda A. Teplin

This is the first book to examine the relationship between the American mental health and criminal justice systems from a social science perspective. The contributors -- esteemed scholars from the fields of criminology, law and psychiatry -- illuminate critical areas of the mental health/criminal justice process: how laws and statutes govern the treatment of mentally disordered offenders, how a change in one procedure affects the entire intersystem process, how police manage the deinstitutionalized mentally ill, and how deviant behaviour is defined and treated.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803920857
• ISBN13: 9780803920859
• Release Date: October 1984
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.