TY - BOOK ID - 127305194 TI - Decriminalizing mental illness AU - Warburton, Katherine D. AU - Stahl, Stephen Michael PY - 2021 SN - 9781108826952 1108826954 PB - Cambridge: Cambridge university press, DB - UniCat KW - Forensic Psychiatry KW - Commitment of Mentally Ill KW - Criminal Law KW - Institutionalization KW - Psychotic Disorders KW - Insanity Defense UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:127305194 AB - "The history of serious mental illness (SMI) is grim, from a cultural as well as a treatment perspective. The conditions of individuals with psychotic disorders have swung, like a pendulum, from institutional neglect to community neglect and back again over the past several hundred years. At the core of treatment failure is a failure in mental health policy and funding, with the result usually framed as the degree of human institutionalization in jails, prisons and asylums. In the middle of the 19th century, institutions designed to deliver moral treatment were considered the humane answer to care properly for the SMI population. By the mid- 20th century, those same, now overcrowded, institutions were blamed for the horrible conditions of mistreatment of individuals with SMI. Now, as we approach the middle of the 21st century, deinstitutionalization (the answer to the cruel asylums) is purportedly at fault for homelessness, lack of treatment, and criminalization. As the pendulum swings, we are hearing cries to "bring back" the asylums" ER -