The insanity offense
Subtitle: how America's failure to treat the seriously mentally ill endangers its citizens
By: E. Fuller Torrey.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780393066586
Subjects: Mental health services -- United States -- Evaluation; Mentally ill -- Deinstitutionalization -- United States; Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- United States; Dangerously mentally ill -- United States; Mental health laws -- United States; Commitment of Mentally Ill -- United States; Dangerous Behavior -- United States; Deinstitutionalization -- United States; Mental Health Services -- organization & administration -- United States; Mentally Ill Persons -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the origins of a disaster; title: Death by the roadside; title: Thirteen murders to prevent an earthquake; title: "The odds are still in society's favor"; title: The killing of three devils; title: The sad legacy of Ms. Lessard; title: God does not take medication; title: The consequences of unconstrained civil liberties: homeless incarcerated and victimized; title: The consequences of unconstrained civil liberties: violent and homicidal; title: An imperative for change; title: Fixing the system; title: Coda: death by the roadside.