Regulating Madness in a Mental Health Court

This article explores the regulation of people with mental illness who are accused of committing minor crimes (e.g. mischief, minor theft, assault, uttering threats, etc.) and viewed as disturbing the public order. The results are drawn from a study of a Mental Health Court (MHC) in Montréal (Canad...

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Main Author: Sue-Ann MacDonald
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Bern Open Publishing 2016-05-01
Series:Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology
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Online Access:https://journal-sa.ch/article/view/7375