Criminalization of Mental Illness Reader publishes Sporer’s research
Karyn Sporer, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Maine, had a book chapter published in the Criminalization of Mental Illness Reader (K. Frailing and R. Slate, Eds., Carolina Academic Press, 2018, pp. 85–106). Her chapter is titled “Family Violence and Mental Illness.” The chapter’s focus is the experiences of families in getting mental health treatment for a loved one, and the potential for violence against caregivers by people with a mental illness.