Resource: FROM HOSPITALS TO PRISONS: A NEW EXPLANATION

By: Fredrick E. Vars & Shelby B. Calambokidis

This Essay offers a new theory: the Supreme Court in 1990 reduced the costs of incarcerating the severely mentally ill by approving the cheap and easy forced medication of prisoners. We show that this theory is supported by time series and cross-sectional data.

http://www.antoniocasella.eu/archipsy/Vars_2017.pdf