PATRICIA ERICKSON is a professor at Canisius College, where she serves as chair of the department of sociology, anthropology, and criminal justice. Steven Erickson is a forensic psychologist, practicing attorney, and a Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Centers (MIRECC) fellow at Yale University.

"A provocative, challenging, and thoughtful multi-disciplinary investigation of one of the most serious social issues we face. This is a major contribution to the literature." - Michael Perlin (New York Law School) "This book is informative and, with its reference to specific cases, more interesting than it might otherwise be. Recommended." (Choice)

• PrefaceAcknowledgements1 The Social Construction of Mental Illness as a Criminal Justice Problem2 Systems of Social Control: From Asylums to Prisons3 Competency to Stand Trial and Competency to Be Executed4 The Problems with the Insanity Defense: The COnflict between Law and Psychiatry5 The "Mad" or "Bad" Debate Concerning Sex Offenders6 Juvenile Offenders, Developmental Competency, and Mental Illness7 Criminalizing Mental Illness: Does It Matter?ReferencesIndex

PATRICIA ERICKSON is a professor at Canisius College, where she serves as chair of the department of sociology, anthropology, and criminal justice. Steven Erickson is a forensic psychologist, practicing attorney, and a Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Centers (MIRECC) fellow at Yale University.

"A provocative, challenging, and thoughtful multi-disciplinary investigation of one of the most serious social issues we face. This is a major contribution to the literature." - Michael Perlin (New York Law School) "This book is informative and, with its reference to specific cases, more interesting than it might otherwise be. Recommended." (Choice)

• PrefaceAcknowledgements1 The Social Construction of Mental Illness as a Criminal Justice Problem2 Systems of Social Control: From Asylums to Prisons3 Competency to Stand Trial and Competency to Be Executed4 The Problems with the Insanity Defense: The COnflict between Law and Psychiatry5 The "Mad" or "Bad" Debate Concerning Sex Offenders6 Juvenile Offenders, Developmental Competency, and Mental Illness7 Criminalizing Mental Illness: Does It Matter?ReferencesIndex

PATRICIA ERICKSON is a professor at Canisius College, where she serves as chair of the department of sociology, anthropology, and criminal justice. Steven Erickson is a forensic psychologist, practicing attorney, and a Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Centers (MIRECC) fellow at Yale University.

"A provocative, challenging, and thoughtful multi-disciplinary investigation of one of the most serious social issues we face. This is a major contribution to the literature." - Michael Perlin (New York Law School) "This book is informative and, with its reference to specific cases, more interesting than it might otherwise be. Recommended." (Choice)

• PrefaceAcknowledgements1 The Social Construction of Mental Illness as a Criminal Justice Problem2 Systems of Social Control: From Asylums to Prisons3 Competency to Stand Trial and Competency to Be Executed4 The Problems with the Insanity Defense: The COnflict between Law and Psychiatry5 The "Mad" or "Bad" Debate Concerning Sex Offenders6 Juvenile Offenders, Developmental Competency, and Mental Illness7 Criminalizing Mental Illness: Does It Matter?ReferencesIndex