The Criminally Insane: A Community Follow-Up of Mentally Ill Offenders

by Terence Thornberry and Joseph E. Jacoby

The Criminally Insane is the largest scale in-depth follow-up study on mentally ill criminals yet to appear. This book challenges the assumption that inmates of maximum-security mental hospitals are extraordinarily violent and questions the necessity for maintaining maximum-security institutions which currently house some 15,000 persons in the United States.

In 1971, 586 patients were released from a Pennsylvania maximum-security hospital...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226798186
• ISBN13: 9780226798189
• Release Date: April 1979
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 299 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"