Almost a Revolution: Mental Health Law & the Limits of Change
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Doubts about the reality of mental illness and the benefits of psychiatric treatment helped foment a revolution in the law's attitude toward mental disorders over the last 25 years. Legal reformers pushed for laws to make it more difficult to hospitalize and treat people with mental illness, and easier to punish them when they committed criminal acts. Advocates of reform promised vast changes in how our society deals with the mentally ill; opponents...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0195068807
ISBN13:9780195068801
Release Date:January 1994
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:248 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"
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