Neither bad nor mad: the competing discourses of psychiatry, law, and politics
Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Greig, Deidre N. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Jessica Kingsley Pub. 2002
Schriftenreihe:Forensic focus 20
Schlagworte:
Online-Zugang:FAW01
FAW02
Volltext
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-281) and indexes
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; AUTHOR'S NOTE; PREFACE; 1 Mad Bad and Dangerous to Know; 2 A Macabre Dance to His Well known Tune The Pathway of Resistance; 3 A Flurry of Activity The Political Reaction to a Dangerous Person; 4 Bad or Mad The Credibility of Psychiatry; 5 A Malleable Boundary and the Bridging Manoeuvres; 6 The Supreme Court David versus Goliath; 7 The Social Audience and a Master Puppeteer; 8 The Prism of Dangerousness; SUBJECT INDEX; AUTHOR INDEX.
This book looks at what happened when the government of Victoria, Australia, enacted special legislation to detain one person with a severe antisocial personality disorder on the grounds of his presumed dangerousness, despite the fact that he did not fit within the ordinary criteria of mental illness or criminality. In doing so, it interfered with the law's protection of civil rights and also with professional distinctions between a certifiable mental illness and the broader concept of mental disorder. The ensuing legal processes highlighted the ambiguous, contingent and negotiable nature of t
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (288 p.)
ISBN:1417501596
1843100061
1846423309
9781417501595
9781846423307

Es ist kein Print-Exemplar vorhanden.

Fernleihe Bestellen Achtung: Nicht im THWS-Bestand! Volltext öffnen