02489nam a22003015i 450000100090000000300080000900500170001700700030003400800410003701000170007802000300009502000270012504000230015204100080017504200080018305000240019110000170021524500760023226401060030830000420041433600260045633700280048233800270051052014730053765000600201065000560207065000610212620322976BJBSDDR20230831151525.0ta180130s2018    nyu           000 0 eng    a  2018933315  a9780465094196 (hardcover)  a0465094198 (hardcover)  aDLCbengerdacDLC  aeng  apcc14aHV 9471bR845i 20181 aRoth, Alisa 10aInsane :bAmerica's criminal treatment of mental illness /cAlisa Roth. 1aNew York, NY :bBasic Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group,c2018.  avi, 312 pages : bportrait ; c25 cm.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aIn America, having a mental illness has become a crime. One in four fatal police shootings involves a person with mental illness. The country's three largest providers of mental health care are not hospitals, but jails. As many as half the people in US jails and prisons have a psychiatric disorder. In Insane, journalist Alisa Roth goes deep inside the criminal justice system to reveal how America's tough-on-crime policies have transformed it into a warehouse for people with mental illness, one where prisoners are denied proper treatment, abused, and punished in ways that make them sicker. She takes readers from the overwhelmed mental health units of the Los Angeles County jail to the women's prisons of Oklahoma, which have one of the fastest-growing populations of people with mental illness in the country. She introduces us to ordinary people whose untreated mental illnesses drive them repeatedly into the justice system--and in some cases, to their deaths. Investigating police departments, courts, jails, and emergency health-care facilities across the country, Roth provides the first nationwide account of this mental health crisis--and uncovers the hidden forces behind it. She also surveys a range of efforts to address the problem, making the case for a large-scale overhaul of mental health care and criminal justice. Insane is a galvanizing wake-up call for criminal justice reformers and anyone concerned about the plight of our most vulnerable. 4aDelincuentes con enfermedades mentales zEstados Unidos 4aPresos xServicios de salud mental zEstados Unidos 4aDelincuentes xAspectos psicológicos zEstados Unidos