Mad Or Bad?: Race, Class, Gender, and Mental Disorder in the Criminal Justice System by Melissa Thompson
Mad Or Bad?: Race, Class, Gender, and Mental Disorder in the Criminal Justice System
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Melissa Thompson
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Mad Or Bad?: Race, Class, Gender, and Mental Disorder in the Criminal Justice System

Melissa Thompson

208 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

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"Thompson explores the process through which criminal responsibility is constructed and reproduced on the basis of race and gender. While feminist literature points to constructions of female offenders as "mad" and male offenders as "bad," this re...

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