TY  - BOOK
AU  - Torrey,E.Fuller
TI  - The insanity offense: how America's failure to treat the seriously mentally ill endangers its citizens 
SN  - 9780393066586
AV  - RC443 .T67 2008
U1  - 362.196/89 22
PY  - 0000///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton
KW  - Mental health services
KW  - United States
KW  - Evaluation
KW  - Mentally ill
KW  - Deinstitutionalization
KW  - Commitment and detention
KW  - Dangerously mentally ill
KW  - Mental health laws
KW  - Commitment of Mentally Ill
KW  - Mental Health Services
KW  - organization & administration
KW  - Dangerous Behavior
KW  - Mentally Ill Persons
KW  - fast
KW  - Entinstitutionalisierung
KW  - idszbz
KW  - Gesundheitspolitik
KW  - Psychisch Kranker
KW  - Psychosoziale Versorgung
KW  - Reform
KW  - Gesellschaft
KW  - gnd
KW  - sears
KW  - Mental health
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - USA
KW  - swd
KW  - Nonfiction
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-250) and index; Introduction : the origins of a disaster -- Death by the roadside -- Thirteen murders to prevent an earthquake -- "The odds are still in society's favor" -- The killing of three devils -- The sad legacy of Ms. Lessard -- God does not take medication -- The consequences of unconstrained civil liberties : homeless, incarcerated, and victimized -- The consequences of unconstrained civil liberties : violent and homicidal -- An imperative for change -- Fixing the system -- Coda : death by the roadside
N2  - Beginning in the 1960s in the United States, scores of patients with severe psychiatric disorders were discharged from public mental hospitals. At the same time, activists forced changes in commitment laws that made it impossible to treat half of the patients that left the hospital. The combined effect was profoundly destructive. Today, among homeless persons, at least one-third are severely mentally ill; among the incarcerated, at least one-tenth. Of those individuals living in our communities, many are the victims of violent crime. Other untreated individuals commit crimes, including murder and assault. Here, advocate Torrey takes full stock of this phenomenon, exploring the causes and consequences as he weaves together narratives of individual tragedies in three states with sobering national data on our failure to treat the mentally ill. In the book's final chapters, Torrey outlines what needs to be done to reverse this ongoing--and accelerating--disaster.--From publisher description
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