Mental Health and Criminal Justice

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803920849
• ISBN13: 9780803920842
• Release Date: November 1984
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.