Comparison of the Judicialization Process in French and American Mental Health Systems : a Professional Perspective

Tonya Tartour (1)

1 CSO - Centre de sociologie des organisations (Sciences Po, CNRS)

The paper aims to analyze the relationship between justice and psychiatry in two different national contexts : France and the United States, from the XIXth century , when psyhchiatry appears in both countries as amongst the most significant ways to treat deviant people.

Keywords: Judicialization; Psychiatry

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Sociology

Tonya Tartour. Comparison of the Judicialization Process in French and American Mental Health Systems : a Professional Perspective. Council for European Studies, Mar 2018, Chicago, United States. ⟨hal-03619821⟩