Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Persons with Mental Disabilities and the American Legal System -- 2 Sanism and America's Exaggerated Fear of Violence -- 3 Sanist Words and Language -- 4 Predictions of Dangerousness in the Courtroom -- 5 Assumptions Based on the Unknowable -- 6 Dangerousness and the Unconscionable Failure to Provide Humane Care and Treatment to Persons with Serious Mental Disabilities -- 7 Deemed Dangerous Due to a Mental Disability -- 8 A New System of State and Federal Laws and Public Health Approaches for Persons with Mental Disabilities Deemed to Be Dangerous -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

Using a multi-disciplinary approach, this book documents and explains how, when and why adults and children with mental disabilities-including those with sexual disorders- 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. The author identifies and analyzes the key factors that should be understood when lawyers, judges, mental health professionals, policymakers, legislators, advocates, forensic experts, professors and their students consider the legal, treatment and policy decisions that affect this highly stigmatized group of people.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.