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The Criminally Insane : A Community Follow-up of Mentally Ill Offenders (Studies in Crime and Justice)
The Criminally Insane A Community Followup of Mentally Ill Offenders - Studies in Crime and Justice
Author: Terence Thornberry, Joseph E. Jacoby
The Criminally Insane is the largest scale in-depth follow-up study on mentally ill criminals yet to appear. This book challenges the assumption that inmates of maximum-security mental hospitals are extraordinarily violent and questions the necessity for maintaining maximum-security institutions which currently house some 15,000 persons i...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226798189
ISBN-10: 0226798186
Publication Date: 4/1/1979
Pages: 299
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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