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Mental Disability, Violence, and Future Dangerousness - Myths Behind the Presumption of Guilt (Hardcover, New)
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Mental Disability, Violence, and Future Dangerousness - Myths Behind the Presumption of Guilt (Hardcover, New)
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When horrific acts of violence take place, events such as massacres
in Boston, Newtown, CT, and Aurora, CO, people want answers. Who
would commit such a thoughtless act of violence? What in their
backgrounds could make them so inhumane, cruel, and evil? Often,
people assume immediately that the perpetrator must have a mental
disorder, and in some cases that does prove to be the case. But the
assumption that most people with mental disorders are violent,
prone to act out, and a threat to others and themselves, is clearly
erroneous. Mental Disability, Violence, and Future Dangerousness
thoroughly documents and explains how and why persons with mental
disabilities who are perceived to be a future danger to others, the
community, or themselves have become the most stigmatized, abused,
and mistreated group in America, and what should be done to correct
the resulting injustices. Each year state and federal governments
incarcerate, deny treatment to, and otherwise deprive hundreds of
thousands of Americans with mental disabilities of their
fundamental rights, liberties, and freedoms- including on occasion
their lives-based on unreliable and misleading predictions that
they are likely to be dangerous in the future. Yet, due to an
exaggerated fear of violence in our society, almost no one seems
concerned about these injustices, which exclusively affect
Americans who have been impaired by mental disorders and the lack
of treatment, especially after they have been abused as children or
injured in combat. Instead, we appear to be oblivious to these
injustices or comfortable in allowing them to become worse. Here,
John Weston Parry carefully delineates the mishandling of persons
with mental disabilities by the criminal and civil justice systems,
and illustrates the ways in which we can identify and remedy those
injustices.
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