The Court of Last Resort looks at decision making in a mental-health court and at the dilemmas of treating mental illness while protecting patients' legal rights. Carol Warren spent seven years studying hearings in a large California court where people who had been involuntarily committed to institutions for psychiatric treatment could petition for their release. In this book she confronts questions of whether mental illness is real or only a label for societal control, whether the government should be involved in committing the deviant to institutions, and how the interaction of judges, psychiatrists, families, police, and other individuals and agencies affect the court's administration of mental-health law. Though the cases in this book fall under California's Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, Warren's analysis of conflicts between legal and medical models of behavior is of national and international importance both to sociologists and to the many professionals who work at the juncture of mental health and the law.
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courtroom decision making, mental health law system, metropolitan court, conservatorship cases, civil commitment system, legally relevant behavior, testifying psychiatrists, mental health court, preventive confinement, grave disability, involuntary civil commitment, civil commitment cases, mentally disordered persons, conservatorship proceedings, gravely disabled, involuntary incarceration, effective liberty, involuntary commitment, involuntary patients, delusional person, involuntary hospitalization, commonsense model, labeling perspective, secondary deviation, mental hospitalization Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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courtroom decision making, mental health law system, metropolitan court, conservatorship cases, civil commitment system, legally relevant behavior, testifying psychiatrists, mental health court, preventive confinement, grave disability, involuntary civil commitment, civil commitment cases, mentally disordered persons, conservatorship proceedings, gravely disabled, involuntary incarceration, effective liberty, involuntary commitment, involuntary patients, delusional person, involuntary hospitalization, commonsense model, labeling perspective, secondary deviation, mental hospitalization Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Social Policy (Routledge Key Guides) by Karen Morse on page 200, and page 202
- Alternatives to Mental Hospital Treatment by L. Stein in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Handbook of Criminology by Daniel Glaser in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Criminal Law: Cases and Materials, 2nd Edition by Stephen A. Saltzburg in Back Matter
- Juvenile Justice by Robert W. Taylor in Back Matter
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- Almost A Revolution: Mental Health Law and the Limits of Change by Paul S. Appelbaum on page 57, page 159, and page 220
- Back to the Asylum: The Future of Mental Health Law and Policy in the United States by John Q. LaFond in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Who Qualifies for Rights: Homelessness, Mental Illness, and Civil Commitment by Judith Lynn Failer in Back Matter
- Rethinking the Sociology of Mental Health (Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs) by Joan Busfield on page 152
- Pushbutton Psychiatry: A History of Electroshock in America by Timothy W. Kneeland in Back Matter
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