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