Mary Ellen Stitt
1 book
About the Author
Mary Ellen Stitt is an author whose work examines the intersections of illness, punishment, and the criminal legal system. Her writing brings careful research and humane attention to people navigating institutions that often treat vulnerability as wrongdoing. In Trial by Treatment: Punishing Illness in an Age of Criminal Legal Reform, Stitt explores how responses to illness can reproduce coercion and punishment even amid efforts toward legal reform. Her work will interest readers concerned with social justice, public policy, health, and the consequences of criminalization.
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analytical
empathetic
incisive
Books by Mary Ellen Stitt
