Insane : America's criminal treatment of mental illness / Alisa Roth.
2018
HV6133 .R68 2018eb
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Title
Insane : America's criminal treatment of mental illness / Alisa Roth.
Author
Roth, Alisa, author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780465094202 (electronic bk.)
0465094201 (electronic bk.)
9780465094196
0465094201 (electronic bk.)
9780465094196
Published
New York : Basic Books, [2018].
Copyright
©2018
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (vi, 312 pages)
Call Number
HV6133 .R68 2018eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
364.3/8
Summary
An urgent exposé of the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons America has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with mental illnesses than any hospital. As many as half of all people in America's jails and prisons have a psychiatric disorder. One in four fatal police shootings involves a person with such disorders. In this revelatory book, journalist Alisa Roth goes deep inside the criminal justice system to show how and why it has become a warehouse where inmates are denied proper treatment, abused, and punished in ways that make them sicker. Through intimate stories of people in the system and those trying to fix it, Roth reveals the hidden forces behind this crisis and suggests how a fairer and more humane approach might look. Insane is a galvanizing wake-up call for criminal justice reformers and anyone concerned about the plight of our most vulnerable.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 23, 2018).
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Table of Contents
Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Dedication; Introduction; Author's Note; PART I. ENSNARED: HOW WE GOT HERE; 1. Jail Is the Only Safe Place; 2. The Largest Psych Ward in America; 3. The Asylum Fallacy; PART II. LOCKED UP: WHAT HAPPENS INSIDE; 4. Jail as Hospital; 5. Destined to Fail; 6. Sanctioned Torture; 7. Better Off Dead; 8. Guilty by Reason of Insanity; PART III. BREAKING FREE: TOWARD A BETTER WAY; 9. Inside Out; 10. The Cycle; 11. Shooting the Victim; 12. The Good-Cop Solution; 13. Disorder in the Court; Conclusion; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Praise for Insane; Notes; Index.