Trial by Treatment: Punishing Illness in an Age of Criminal Legal Reform - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226840420ISBN-10:226840425UPC:9780226840420Book Category:Law, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Mental Health, Penology, Race & Ethnic RelationsSize:8.98 x 5.98 x 0.63 inchesWeight:0.7408Product ID:SCKDGB635M
Trial by Treatment: Punishing Illness in an Age of Criminal Legal Reform
A troubling account of the unexpected impacts of treatment-based alternatives to criminal punishment.
Every year, courts send hundreds of thousands of people to treatment-based programs as alternatives to traditional punishment. These alternatives--known as 'diversion programs'--are widely celebrated as reforms that reduce the punishment of the mentally ill. But in Trial by Treatment, Mary Ellen...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226840420ISBN-10:226840425UPC:9780226840420Book Category:Law, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Mental Health, Penology, Race & Ethnic RelationsSize:8.98 x 5.98 x 0.63 inchesWeight:0.7408Product ID:SCKDGB635M
Mary Ellen Stitt is an assistant professor in the School of Criminal Justice and faculty affiliate in the Department of Sociology at the University at Albany, SUNY. She is a former American Bar Foundation / National Science Foundation Doctoral Fellow in Law & Inequality and a Fulbright Scholar. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the American Journal of Sociology, Punishment &...
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