Community Systems Collide and Cooperate: Control of Deviance by the Legal and Mental Health Systems

摘要: For most of history, society controlled mentally disordered behavior informally; but with ­modernization it developed formal organizational controls for the recognized as disordered. This chapter examines relatively recent attempts by two systems, legal and mental health to define execute control over persons illness whose violates societal norms. It begins a brief history posture systems toward prior mid-twentieth century. then describes collision which occurred following civil rights reforms made system arbiter system’s decisions in treatment hospitalization, especially involuntary hospitalization. forces beyond brought about conditions leading their cooperation. new cooperation that is beginning occur, giving some detail one promising program Finally, discusses directions future inquiry researchers who study systems’ efforts controlling deviance illness.