02660nam a22003495i 4500 20322976 BJBSDDR 20230831151525.0 ta 180130s2018 nyu 000 0 eng 2018933315 9780465094196 (hardcover) 0465094198 (hardcover) DLC eng rda DLC eng pcc HV 9471 R845i 2018 Roth, Alisa 32102 Insane : America's criminal treatment of mental illness / Alisa Roth. New York, NY : Basic Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, 2018. vi, 312 pages : portrait ; 25 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier In 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. Delincuentes con enfermedades mentales 32113 Estados Unidos Presos Servicios de salud mental 32114 Estados Unidos Delincuentes Aspectos psicológicos 32115 Estados Unidos 0 ibc orignew 2 epcn 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 120042 120042 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2023-08-31 0 HV 9471 R845i 2018 00000171184 2023-08-31 00:00:00 1 2023-08-31 BK