“Comment les sociétés ‘se débarrassent de leurs vivants’: Dangerosité et Psychiatrie, la donne contemporaine”
- Submitting institution
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The University of Leicester
- Unit of assessment
- 18 - Law
- Output identifier
- 955
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.4000/conflits.18912
- Title of journal
- Cultures et conflits = Culturas y conflictos = Cultures and conflicts
- Article number
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- First page
- 203
- Volume
- 94-95-96
- Issue
- 94-95-96
- ISSN
- 1157-996X
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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https://doi.org/10.4000/conflits.18912
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- Yes
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- -
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- Psychiatrists are increasingly expected to detect and manage individuals said to be dangerous. Many countries rely on actuarial instruments to produce an "objective" measure of the risk represented by "mentally disordered" individuals and have introduced legal sanctions for psychiatrists failing in their social control mission. The notion of dangerosity is neither legal nor medical, however, but is produced through the technology of psychiatric assessment, which Foucault called "juridico-clinical redoubling". This article draws upon Foucault's problematisation, to argue for an ethical approach by medico-legal actors, while rejecting the contemporary equation of criminal justice with risk management.