dc.contributor.author | Nordberg, Anne | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-10-09T23:01:57Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-10-09T23:01:57Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Published in BioSocieties: 1-22, 2015 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1745-8552 (Print) | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1745-8560 (Online) | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10106/27016 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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 as the foundation for a discussion of court processes that are an example of biopower. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how strategies for intervention in the name of life and health, truth discourses and forms of self-governance operate among criminal justice-involved individuals with SMI. This study reveals the tensions between the intense forensic gaze and invisibility and between treatment strategies that are beneficial for some
people with SMI yet ultimately coercive and oppressive. The governance of this population is discussed, as well as what happens to people who fail or refuse to self-govern as the court compels them. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Macmillan Publishers Ltd. | en_US |
dc.subject | People -- severe mental illness (SMI) -- governance | en_US |
dc.subject | MHC | en_US |
dc.subject | People -- severe mental illness (SMI) -- structural violence | en_US |
dc.subject | Mental Health Court -- Toronto, Canada -- ethnographic research | en_US |
dc.subject | Toronto Mental Health Court (TMHC) -- Ontario -- Toronto | en_US |
dc.title | Therapeutic governmentality and biopower in a Canadian mental health court | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.description.version | Post-print | en_US |
dc.publisher.department | School of Social Work, The University of Texas at Arlington | en_US |
dc.identifier.externalLinkDescription | The final, original publication is available at Article DOI | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | https://dx.doi.org/10.1057/biosoc.2015.36 | |