Partners in health, partners in crime
Subtitle: exploring the boundaries of criminology and sociology of health and illness
By: edited by Stefan Timmermans and Jonathan Gabe.
Contributors: Timmermans, Stefan, 1968-; Gabe, Jonathan.
Series: Sociology of health and illness monograph series
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Malden, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Criminology.; Social medicine.; Social control.; Dangerously mentally ill.; Crime -- Sociological aspects.
Description: "Criminology and medical sociology have developed largely independently of one another, despite a shared interest in questions of authority, expertise, social control, legitimacy, and credibility. This book crosses the divide, bringing together essays on the border between crime and health care.".

"The region between the two fields is populated by, amongst others, forensic health care providers who interpret evidence and provide expert testimony in courts; law enforcement agents incarcerating populations with unmet mental health needs; and policy makers opting for punitive or treatment oriented policies. In considering the work of these professionals, the contributors to this volume snap out the medical component of crime and the legal status of medicine."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"First published as Volume 24 number 5 of Sociology of health and illness."--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: connecting criminology and sociology of health and illness / Stefan Timmermans and Jonathan Gabe; title: Towards generous constraint: freedom and coercion in a French addiction treatment / Emilie Gomart; title: The cause of death vs. the gift of life: boundary maintenance and the politics of expertise in death investigation / Stefan Timmermans; title: Violence against doctors: a medical(ised) problem? / Mary Ann Elston [et al.]; title: The emergence and implications of a mental health ethos in juvenile justice / Sarah Armstrong; title: Contesting the text: Canadian media depictions of the conflation of mental illness and criminality / Riley Olstead; title: Actor networks, policy networks and personality disorder / Nick Manning; title: Temporarily insane: pathologising cultural difference in American criminal courts / Sita Reddy.