The consequences of official labels: A research note on rights lost by the mentally ill, mentally incompetent, and convicted felons

Community Mental Health Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1990, Pages 267-276

  Burton Jr , Velmer S ^a  

^a College of Education ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPETENCE; HUMAN; LAW; LEGAL ASPECT; MENTAL PATIENT; PATIENT RIGHT; PRISONER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

CIVIL RIGHTS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRIME; HUMAN; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL RETARDATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0025029328     PISSN: 00103853     EISSN: 15732789     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00752777     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. The Right to Hold Public Office and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments: The Original Understanding
2. The Fall From Grace: Loss of Occupational Status as a Consequence of Conviction for a White Collar Crime
3. The Attitude of Industrial Employers Toward Hiring Former State Mental Patients
4. Rejection of the Mentally Ill: Continuities and Further Developments
5. The Collateral Consequences of a Felony Conviction: A National Study of State Statutes
6. Inequality in the Imposition of a Criminal Label
7. Termination of the Parental Rights of the Mentally Ill
8. The Professional License: An Ex-Offender's Illusion
9. The Association Between Selected Characteristics and Perceived Employability of Offenders
10. The Collateral Consequences of a Criminal Conviction
11. Familial Expectations, Posthospital Adjustment, and the Societal Reaction Perspective on Mental Illness
12. Attitudes Toward Ex-Offenders: A Comparison of Social Stigmas
13. The Loss of Parental Rights as a Consequence of Conviction and Imprisonment: Unintended Punishment
14. Ex-Convict Disabilities: An Analysis of Bergansky v. State of New York Liquor Authority
15. Mental Patient Status, Work and Income: An Examination of the Effects of a Psychiatric Label
16. Contact With the Mentally Ill and Perceptions of How Dangerous They Are
17. The Social Rejection of Ex-Mental Patients: Understanding Why Labels Matter
18. The Rights of the Mentally Ill Under State Constitutions
19. Fear, Prejudice, and Neglect: Discrimination Against Mentally Disabled Persons
20. Psychiatric Stigma: Two Studies of Behavior When the Chips are Down
21. Rejection of the Mentally Ill: The Influence of Behavior and Sex
22. Public Attitudes Toward Mental Illness: A Review of the Literature
23. Inmate Mothers: Legislative Solutions to a Difficult Problem
24. Disenfranchisement of Ex-Felons: A Reassessment
25. The Man With a Record: A Civil Rights Problem
26. Civil Death—A New Look at an Ancient Doctrine
27. Two Studies of Legal Stigma
28. Conviction: Civil Disabilities
29. Stigma and Psychiatric Patient Career
30. Disenfranchisement of Convicted Felons: A Cruelly Excessive Punishment
31. The Right to Vote as Applied to Ex-Felons
32. Social Attitudes Toward Discharge Mental Patients