title: Good & evil in the crusade of care. Social constructions of mental disorders.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: University of Liverpool, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Nursing, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mercer
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mason
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Richman
mesh_terms: D003469:Culture; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D014481:United States