Good & evil in the crusade of care. Social constructions of mental disorders.
Forensic nursing is a product of medicalized criminality, where social and moral issues are managed within a psychiatric ideology. The narrative accounts of nursing staff reflect a tension between scientific and lay interpretations of offending behavior. A nonprofessional discourse about "evil" presents a challenge to the structural and clinical credibility of forensic practice.
Mercer
D
D
University of Liverpool, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Nursing, United Kingdom.
Mason
T
T
Richman
J
J
D003469:Culture; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D014481:United States