Abstract

SANTANA, Ana Flávia Ferreira de Almeida; CHIANCA, Tânia Couto Machado  and  CARDOSO, Clareci Silva. Law and mental health: historical journey to overcome the exclusion. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) [online]. 2011, vol.17, n.1, pp.16-31. ISSN 1677-1168.

It is a narrative literature revision to search historical and theoretical information available about crime and mental insanity relations. The modern conceptions of crime and mental insanity have been constituted privileged spaces of intervention and social control for over two centuries. The Judiciary Mental Hospitals and the security measures are instruments of social control. On behalf of social protection, it was feasible the enforcement of correctional methods, treatment and individual's socialization and their level of dangerousness could be extinguished through mechanisms of control and surveillance. The creation of a social category, the "criminally-insane", developed a complex judicial institute focused on clinical treatment and restraining of a behavior known called abnormal. Finally, the social reality of Judiciary Mental Hospitals and surveillance measures need to be understood, as well as the current conceptions and actions towards the conception of the relation between crime and mental insanity. Surveillance measures need to be understood, as well as the current conceptions and actions towards the conception of crime and mental insanity relationship

Keywords : crime; mental insanity; judiciary mental hospitals; health-disease process.

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