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Therapeutic governmentality and biopower in a Canadian mental health court
(Macmillan Publishers Ltd.School of Social Work, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2015)Mental health courts (MHCs) are a response to the structural violence experienced by people with severe mental illness (SMI) involved in the criminal justice system. My ethnographic research of an MHC in urban Canada serves ... -
Liminality and Mental Health Court Diversion: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Offender Experiences
(British Association of Social WorkersSchool of Social Work, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2014)Seriously mentally ill people are a 'revolving-door' population in criminal justice systems where they cycle in and out of courts and jails. In response and consonant with the principles of therapeutic jurisprudence, mental ...