Introduction: The Criminalization of Mental Illness

Introduction: The Criminalization of Mental Illness

This Introduction provides an overview of the articles in a volume of the Albany Government Law Review dedicated to addressing the issue of the "criminalization of mental illness." They attempt to address just some of the many questions that this troubling trend raises. They offer insightful analysis and offer compelling, if, at times, controversial, responses to these questions.

Albany Government Law Review

2015

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English

Raymond H. Brescia, Introduction, The Criminalization of Mental Illness, 8 ALB. GOV'T. L. REV. vii (2015).