Decriminalization in Action: Lessons from the Los Angeles Model

Chapter 13 - Decriminalization in Action: Lessons from the Los Angeles Model

from Part II - Solutions

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 October 2021

Kristen Ochoa ,

Oona Appel ,

Viet Nguyen and

Elizabeth Kim

Edited by

Katherine Warburton and

Stephen M. Stahl

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Katherine Warburton: Affiliation:
University of California, Davis
Stephen M. Stahl: Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego

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The insane criminal has nowhere any home: no age or nation has provided a place for him. He is everywhere unwelcome and objectionable. The prisons thrust him out; the hospitals are unwilling to receive him. And yet humanity and justice, the sense of common danger, and a tender regard for a deeply degraded brother-man, all agree that something should be done for him—that some plan must be devised different from, and better than any that has yet been tried, by which he may be properly cared for, by which his malady may be healed, and his criminal propensity overcome.

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Information: Decriminalizing Mental Illness , pp. 127 - 131

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108920698 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2021

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