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• Title:The ethics of total confinement : a critique of madness, citizenship, and social justice / Bruce A. Arrigo, Heather Y. Bersot, Brian G. Sellers.
  
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• Author/Creator:Arrigo, Bruce A.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Bersot, Heather Y.
  Sellers, Brian G.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: K5077 .A97 2011
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Mentally ill offenders--Legal status, laws, etc.
  Law--Philosophy.
  Mental health laws.
  Solitary confinement.
  Mentally ill--Care--Moral and ethical aspects.
  Mentally ill--Commitment and detention.
  Insanity (Law)--United States.
  Criminal liability.
  Punishment--United States.
  
• Medical Subjects: Forensic Psychiatry--ethics
  Mentally Ill Persons--legislation & jurisprudence
  Prisoners--legislation & jurisprudence
  Civil Rights--ethics
  Institutionalization--ethics
  Mental Competency--legislation & jurisprudence
  Social Control Policies--ethics
  Commitment of Mentally Ill
  United States
  
• Description:xvi, 300 pages ; 25 cm.
  
• Series:American Psychology-Law Society series.
  
• Summary:The authors present a controversial thesis that demonstrates how the forces of captivity and risk management are sustained by several interdependent 'conditions of control.' These conditions impose barriers to justice and set limits on citizenship for one and all.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-282) and indexes.
  
• ISBN:9780195372212 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Ethics of Psychological Jurisprudence
  2. Juvenile Transfer, Developmental Maturity, and Competency to Stand Trial
  3. Inmate Mental Health, Solitary Confinement, and Cruel and Unusual Punishment
  4. Sexually Violent Predators, Criminal and Civil Confinement, and Community Re-Entry
  5. Rethinking Total Confinement: Translating Social Theory Into Justice Policy.