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dc.contributor.authorNordberg, Anne
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-09T23:01:57Z
dc.date.available2017-10-09T23:01:57Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.citationPublished in BioSocieties: 1-22, 2015en_US
dc.identifier.issn1745-8552 (Print)
dc.identifier.issn1745-8560 (Online)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10106/27016
dc.description.abstractMental 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.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherMacmillan Publishers Ltd.en_US
dc.subjectPeople -- severe mental illness (SMI) -- governanceen_US
dc.subjectMHCen_US
dc.subjectPeople -- severe mental illness (SMI) -- structural violenceen_US
dc.subjectMental Health Court -- Toronto, Canada -- ethnographic researchen_US
dc.subjectToronto Mental Health Court (TMHC) -- Ontario -- Torontoen_US
dc.titleTherapeutic governmentality and biopower in a Canadian mental health courten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.description.versionPost-printen_US
dc.publisher.departmentSchool of Social Work, The University of Texas at Arlingtonen_US
dc.identifier.externalLinkDescriptionThe final, original publication is available at Article DOIen_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://dx.doi.org/10.1057/biosoc.2015.36


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