Community-Based Interventions for Criminal Offenders with Severe Mental Illness (Hardcover)

DESCRIPTION: People with mental illness in the criminal justice system are a vexing problem in many countries. Efforts to cope with this problem have taken a number of forms and this volume explores the key issues in this area. Whether and to what extent any of these efforts achieve their goals remains a significant question for researchers from a range of disciplines and for actors and stakeholders from various sectors of the mental health and criminal justice systems TABLE OF CONTENTS: Contributors; Introduction; Criminal Justice Involvement and Severe Mental Illness; Where is the 'illness' in the criminalization of mental illness?; Treatment Modalities for Offenders with Mental Illness; Community mental health services and criminal justice involvement among persons with mental illness; Case management and the forensic client; The impact of 'new generation' anti-psychotic medications on criminal justice outcomes; Embedding Community Mental Health Service System Interventions in the Criminal Justice Process: From Arrest to Release; Jail diversion for people with mental illness: what do we really know); The nature of the alliance: an anthropological look at the practice of forensic psychiatry; Courting the court: courts as agents for treatment and justice; Prison, hospital or community: community re-entry and mentally ill offenders.

General

Imprint:	JAI Press Inc.
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Research in Community and Mental Health
Release date:	December 2002
First published:	2002
Editors:	William H. Fisher
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	232
ISBN-13:	978-0-7623-0972-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > Mental health services Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Illness & addiction: social aspects > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > Offenders > Rehabilitation of offenders
LSN:	0-7623-0972-5
Barcode:	9780762309726

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