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Insane acquittees and insane convicts: the rationalization of policy in nineteenth-century Connecticut (2017)

Goodheart, Lawrence B. (Author)

History of Psychiatry
Volume: 28
Issue: 4
Pages: 410-426
Publication date: 2017
Language: English

URI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X17719175

DOI: 10.1177/0957154X17719175

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Public policy Prisoners Mental disorders and diseases Violence Institutionalization Social control Medicine and ethics Medicine and law Forensic psychiatry 19th century Connecticut (U.S.)

A current situation in Connecticut of whether a violent insane acquittee should be held in a state prison or psychiatric facility raises difficult issues in jurisprudence and medical ethics. Overlooked is that the present case of Francis Anderson reiterates much of the debate over rationalization of policy during the formative nineteenth century. Contrary to theories of social control and state absolutism, governance in Connecticut was largely episodic, indecisive and dilatory over much of the century. The extraordinary urban and industrial transformation at the end of the Gilded Age finally forced a coherent response in keeping with longstanding legal and medical perspectives.

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