Court of Last Resort Mental Illness and the Law

Name: Court of Last Resort Mental Illness and the Law
Price: 12.76 USD
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ISBN: 9780226873893

ISBN-10: 0226873897

ISBN-13: 9780226873893

Edition: 1982

Authors: Carol A. B. Warren, Stephen J. Morse, Jack Zusman

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The Court of Last Resort looks at decision making in a mental-health court and at the dilemmas of treating mental illness while protecting patients' legal rights. Carol Warren spent seven years studying hearings in a large California court where people who had been involuntarily committed to institutions for psychiatric treatment could petition for their release. In this book she confronts questions of whether mental illness is real or only a label for societal control, whether the government should be involved in committing the deviant to institutions, and how the interaction of judges, psychiatrists, families, police, and other individuals and agencies affect the court's administration of…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1982
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 8/1/1984
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 273
Size: 5.87" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English