Crazy
a father's search through America's mental health madness
Berkeley trade pbk. ed.
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Word Count
93,000 words, Guess
Page Count
372 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL19567659M
- ISBN-139780399153136
- ISBN-100399153136
- OCLC Control Number171292207
- OCLC Control Number60824246
and 4 more
- OCLC Control Numbercrazyfatherssear0000earl
- Library of Congress Control Number2005050986
- LibraryThing946116
- Goodreads402432
Classifications
- LCCRC463 .E27 2007
Description
Former Washington Post reporter Pete Earley had written extensively about the criminal justice system. But it was only when his own son-in the throes of a manic episode-broke into a neighbor's house that he learned what happens to mentally ill people who break a law.This is the Earley family's compelling story, a troubling look at bureaucratic apathy and the countless thousands who suffer confinement instead of care, brutal conditions instead of treatment, in the "revolving doors" between hospital and jail. With mass deinstitutionalization, large numbers of state mental patients are homeless or in jail-an experience little better than the horrors of a century ago. Earley takes us directly into that experience-and into that of a father and award-winning journalist trying to fight for a better way.
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Genres
- Biography.
- Case studies.
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