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Community-Based Interventions for Criminal Offenders with Severe Mental Illness (Hardcover)
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Community-Based Interventions for Criminal Offenders with Severe Mental Illness (Hardcover)
Series: Research in Community and Mental Health
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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.
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