Mental disability, violence, and future dangerousness : myths behind the presumption of guilt

Mental disability, violence, and future dangerousness : myths behind the presumption of guilt / John Weston Parry.

Using a multi-disciplinary approach, this book documents and explains how, when and why adults and children with mental disabilities-including those with sexual disorders- who are perceived to be a future danger to others, the community, or themselves have become the most stigmatized, abused, and mi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Parry, John, 1948-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, MD : Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, [2013]
Subjects:
People with mental disabilities > United States.
Mental health laws > United States.
People with mental disabilities > Mental health services > United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Mental health laws
People with mental disabilities
People with mental disabilities > Mental health services
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Persons with mental disabilities and the American legal system : a history of discrimination, abuse and mistreatment
  • Sanism and America's exaggerated fear of violence
  • Sanist words and language: "dangerousness", "the right to treatment" and "civil" versus "criminal"
  • Predictions of dangerousness in the courtroom : unreliable, inaccurate and misleading
  • Accusations based on the unknowable : predictions of dangerousness in civil and criminal proceedings
  • Dangerousness and the unconscionable failure to provide humane care and treatment to persons with serious mental disabilities
  • Deemed dangerous due to a mental disability an extremely suspect classification
  • A new system of state and federal laws and public health approaches for persons with mental disabilities deemed to be dangerous : initial recommendations.

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