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• Title:The insanity offense : how America's failure to treat the seriously mentally ill endangers its citizens / E. Fuller Torrey.
  
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• Author/Creator:Torrey, E. Fuller (Edwin Fuller), 1937-
  
• Published/Created:New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©2008.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WM33.AA1 T694 2008
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Mental health services--United States--Evaluation.
  Mentally ill--Deinstitutionalization--United States.
  Mentally ill--Commitment and detention--United States.
  Dangerously mentally ill--United States.
  Mental health laws--United States.
  
• Medical Subjects: Commitment of Mentally Ill--United States.
  Dangerous Behavior--United States.
  Deinstitutionalization--United States.
  Mental Health Services--organization & administration--United States.
  Mentally Ill Persons--United States.
  
• Edition:1st ed.
  
• Description:xvi, 265 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780393066586 (hbk.)
  0393066584 (hbk.)
  
• Contents:Introduction: The origins of a disaster
  Death by the roadside
  Thirteen murders to prevent an earthquake
  "The odds are still in society's favor"
  The killing of three devils
  The sad legacy of Ms. Lessard
  God does not take medication
  The consequences of unconstrained civil liberties : homeless, incarcerated, and victimized
  The consequences of unconstrained civil liberties : violent and homicidal
  An imperative for change
  Fixing the system
  Coda: Death by the roadside.