Title Mad or bad? : race, class, gender, and mental disorder in the criminal justice system / Melissa Thompson

Published El Paso, Tex. : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2010

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Description x, 197 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Series Criminal justice : recent scholarship Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC) Contents The mental health and criminal justice systems as agents of social control -- The study of race, class, gender, mental illness, and crime -- Data sources and methodology -- Institutional social control: causes and effects -- Mental health treatment among sentenced offenders -- Conclusion Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-191) and index Subject Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States. Crime and race -- United States. Crime -- Sex differences -- United States. Criminals -- Mental health -- United States. LC no. 2010000204 ISBN 9781593323325 paperback alkaline paper 1593323328 paperback alkaline paper

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