Bruce A. Arrigo is Professor and Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice and Adjunct Professor of Public Policy and Psychology at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. He is the author of several books, including Social Justice/Criminal Justice: The Maturation of Critical Theory in Law, Crime, and Deviance and, with Christopher R. Williams, Law, Psychology, and Justice: Chaos Theory and the New (Dis)order, also published by SUNY Press.

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I. Civil Confinement

1. Civil Commitment and Paternalism: Legal and Psychiatric Dynamics

2. Medicolegal Advocacy for the Mentally Ill: A Question of Ethics

3. The Right to Community-Based Treatment

4. Policing and Disciplining Mental Illness: Social Control and Chaos in Confinement

PART II. Criminal Confinement

5. Transcarceration and Mentally Ill "Offenders": Prisoners of Confinement

6. Ideology in the Psychiatric Courtroom: Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity and Guilty but Mentally Ill

7. Executing the Mentally Ill: On Semiotics and Deconstruction

8. Law, Psychiatry, and Punishment: Toward a Critical Theory

Notes

References

Index