Download or read book Insane written by Alisa Roth and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Criminal Insane in the United States and in Foreign Countries written by Samuel June Barrows and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Couple Found Slain written by Mikita Brottman and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Mikita Brottman is one of today’s finest practitioners of nonfiction.” —The New York Times Book Review Critically acclaimed author and psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman offers literary true crime writing at its best, taking us into the life of a murderer after his conviction—when most stories end but the defendant's life goes on. On February 21, 1992, 22-year-old Brian Bechtold walked into a police station in Port St. Joe, Florida and confessed that he’d shot and killed his parents in their family home in Silver Spring, Maryland. He said he’d been possessed by the devil. He was eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia and ruled “not criminally responsible” for the murders on grounds of insanity. But after the trial, where do the "criminally insane" go? Brottman reveals Brian's inner life leading up to the murder, as well as his complicated afterlife in a maximum security psychiatric hospital, where he is neither imprisoned nor free. During his 27 years at the hospital, Brian has tried to escape and been shot by police, and has witnessed three patient-on-patient murders. He’s experienced the drugging of patients beyond recognition, a sadistic system of rewards and punishments, and the short-lived reign of a crazed psychiatrist-turned-stalker. In the tradition of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Couple Found Slain is an insider’s account of life in the underworld of forensic psych wards in America and the forgotten lives of those held there, often indefinitely.
Download or read book Behind the Gates of Gomorrah written by Stephen Seager and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2015-01-02 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A extraordinary, eye-opening look behind the razor wire into life inside the walls of one of the most notorious hospitals for the criminally insane, a hellish world inhabited by mass murderers, serial killers, and other figures from our nightmares. Psychiatrist Stephen Seager was no stranger to locked psych wards when he accepted a job at California's Gorman State hospital, known locally as 'Gomorrah', but nothing could have prepared him for what he encountered when he stepped through its gates, a triple sally port behind the twenty-foot walls topped with shining coils of razor wire. Gorman State is one of the nation's largest forensic mental hospitals, dedicated to treating the criminally insane. Unit C, where Seager was assigned, was reserved for the 'bad actors', the mass murderers, serial killers, and the real-life Hannibal Lecters of the world. Against a backdrop of surreal beauty - a campus-like setting where peacocks strolled the well-kept lawns - is a place of remarkable violence, a place where a small staff of clinicians are expected to manage a volatile population of prison-hardened ex-cons, where lone therapists lead sharing circles with psychopaths, where homemade weapons and contraband circulate freely, and where patients and physicians often measure their lives according to how fast they can run. Behind the Gates of Gomorrah affords an eye-opening look inside a facility to which few people have ever had access. Honest, reflective, and at times darkly funny, Seager's gripping account of his experiences at Gorman State hospital give us an extraordinary insight into a unique and terrifying world, inhabited by figures from our nightmares.
Download or read book Mothers Criminal Insanity and the Asylum in Victorian England written by Alison C. Pedley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-13 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the experiences of women who were designated insane by judicial processes from 1850 to 1900, this book considers the ideas and purposes of incarceration in three dedicated facilities: Bethlem, Fisherton House and Broadmoor. The majority of these patients had murdered, or attempted to murder, their own children but were not necessarily condemned as incurably evil by medical and legal authorities, nor by general society. Alison C. Pedley explores how insanity gave the Victorians an acceptable explanation for these dreadful crimes, and as a result, how admission to a dedicated asylum was viewed as the safest and most human solution for the 'madwomen' as well as for society as a whole. Mothers, Criminal Insanity and the Asylum in Victorian England considers the experiences, treatments and regimes women underwent in an attempt to redeem and rehabilitate them, and return them to into a patriarchal society. It shows how society's views of the institutions and insanity were not necessarily negative or coloured by fear and revulsion, and highlights the changes in attitudes to female criminal lunacy in the second half of the 19th century. Through extensive and detailed research into the three asylums' archives and in legal, governmental, press and genealogical records, this book sheds new light on the views of the patients themselves, and contributes to the historiography of Victorian criminal lunatic asylums, conceptualising them as places of recovery, rehabilitation and restitution.
Download or read book The Meaning of Criminal Insanity written by Herbert Fingarette and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.
Download or read book The Institutional Care of the Insane in the United States and Canada written by Henry Mills Hurd and published by Arno Press. This book was released on 1916 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1917 Original Publisher: Johns Hopkins Press Subjects: Psychiatric hospitals Medical / Mental Health Medical / Psychiatry / General Psychology / Mental Illness Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Winter Fair building was at once placed at the disposal of the government by its directors, and the patients temporarily but comfortably housed therein, while plans were immediately got under way for a new hospital, to be of fireproof construction throughout, with pressed brick and cut-stone walls, metal roof, iron stairways, elevators, and fully equipped for hospital purposes with the most modern plumbing, ventilating and heating, the last to be supplied from a power plant apart from the hospital buildings, pipes passing thereto through a tunnel. It was designed to have a frontage of 425 feet with two additional wings, and to be three stories high with basement. Accommodation was to be provided for 1000 patients at an estimated cost of $1,000.000. The work of erection was begun early in the spring of 1911, and on December 2, 1912, the patients were moved from the Winter Fair building to their new quarters. The formal opening was held in February, 1913.1 The present population is 485. HOME FOR INCURABLES. Portage La Prairie. This institution, located at Portage la Prairie, a town some 50 miles west of Winnipeg, was opened in June, 1890. It was not really intended for mental cases, but owing to the lack of room in the Selkirk Asylum, there were transferred to it therefrom, on its opening, some 17 quiet patients of the idiotic type. This action, combined with the fact that imbeciles and idiots are by law non-admissible to the insane hospitals, ...
Download or read book The Mad the Bad and the Innocent written by Barbara R. Kirwin and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 1997-08-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York area's premier forensic psychologist--the expert prosecutors turn to when a defendant claims insanity--looks back over her most celebrated cases to deliver a no-holds-barred critique of recent insanity defense abuses. Zeroing in on cases such as the Menendez brothers and Jeffrey Dahmer, Kirwin shows how unscrupulous defense attorneys and overzealous prosecutors have perverted the true purpose of the insanity defense. of photos.
Download or read book Summaries of State Laws Relating to the Insane written by John Koren and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Summaries of Laws Relating to the Commitment and Care of the Insane in the United States written by John Koren and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States written by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Insanity and Insane Asylums written by California. Commission in Lunacy and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Legislation on Insanity written by George Leib Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 1134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Committed to the State Asylum written by James E. Moran and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike other studies, Committed to the State Asylum shows the important role that the community played in shaping the asylum and tackles the thorny issue of state development, explaining how state asylums developed differently in each province. He considers Canada?s pioneering institutional efforts at dealing with the criminally insane and why those efforts lasted only a short time, shedding new light on the debate about the nature and extent of state involvement in nineteenth-century Canadian society. Committed to the State Asylum offers new insights into the ways in which both ordinary families and the state understood and responded to those they thought had crossed the boundaries of sane behaviour.
Download or read book The Journal of Abnormal Psychology written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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